We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
JOHN BURROUGHSSome men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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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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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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