Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
JOHN BURROUGHSNature teaches more than she preaches.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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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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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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 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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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