Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
JOHN BURROUGHSIt 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.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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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 red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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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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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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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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The 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.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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