If you think you can do it, you can.
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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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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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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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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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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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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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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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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