To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
JOHN BURROUGHSWhitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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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 fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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