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.
JOHN BURROUGHSOn the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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I 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.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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