Emerson 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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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