Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
JOHN BURROUGHSEngland is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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