Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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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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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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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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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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