Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
JOHN BURROUGHSEmerson 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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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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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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I 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 stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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