We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
JOHN BURROUGHSThe fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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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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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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