Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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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.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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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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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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