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.
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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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 is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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