How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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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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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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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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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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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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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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