Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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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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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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