The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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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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.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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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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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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