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.
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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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 love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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