Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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