Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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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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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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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