Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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