Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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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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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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