England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
JOHN BURROUGHSAll birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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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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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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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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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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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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