Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
JOHN BURROUGHSSometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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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 be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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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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England 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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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