You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
JOHN BURROUGHSHow beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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