The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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