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.
JOHN BURROUGHSA somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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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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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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