Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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