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.
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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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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