Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
JOHN BURROUGHSOne 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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