Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
JOHN BURROUGHSBirds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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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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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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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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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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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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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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