I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
JOHN BURROUGHSA sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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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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