Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
JOHN BURROUGHSWhen Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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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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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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