I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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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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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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