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.
JOHN BURROUGHSLiving in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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