How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
JOHN BURROUGHSI crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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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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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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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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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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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 still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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.
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