Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
JOHN BURROUGHSNature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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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