We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
JOHN BURROUGHSEmerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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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 secret of happiness is something to do.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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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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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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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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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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