It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
JOHN BURROUGHSNaturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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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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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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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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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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