I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
JOHN BURROUGHSHow many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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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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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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