The 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.
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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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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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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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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 distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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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