I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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