He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
JOHN BURROUGHSI still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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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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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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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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