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.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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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 feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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 beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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