Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
JOHN BURROUGHSBlessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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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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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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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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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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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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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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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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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