The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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 feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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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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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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