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.
JOHN BURROUGHSWhitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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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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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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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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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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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