No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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 Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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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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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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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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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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