He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
JOHN BURROUGHSEmerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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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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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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Emerson 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.
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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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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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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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