You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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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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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 have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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