I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
JOHN BURROUGHSWriting is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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 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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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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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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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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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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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