Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
JOHN BURROUGHSI went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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