Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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