Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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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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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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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