Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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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.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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Where 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.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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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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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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