If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
JOHN BURROUGHSA man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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