To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHSHe is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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