You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
JOHN BURROUGHSAugust is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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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 dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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