The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
JOHN BURROUGHSSome scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after 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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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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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The 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.
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