A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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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 key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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