How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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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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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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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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