There 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.
JOHN BURROUGHSWhere 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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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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