Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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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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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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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