Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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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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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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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 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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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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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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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