The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
JOHN BURROUGHSMy motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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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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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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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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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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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