He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
JOHN BURROUGHSI have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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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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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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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 find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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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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