The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
JOHN BURROUGHSI still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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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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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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