I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
JOHN BURROUGHSAs with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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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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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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