All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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