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.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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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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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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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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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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