The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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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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 treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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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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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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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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