Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take,… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, for all the walks I want to… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without… — John Burroughs Copy Share
Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share
When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people… — John Burroughs Copy Share
Science sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into the physical… — John Burroughs Copy Share
Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for… — John Burroughs Copy Share
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking — John Burroughs Copy Share
When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or muffled and… — John Burroughs Copy Share
In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually… — John Burroughs Copy Share
In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to… — John Burroughs Copy Share
One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth. — John Burroughs Copy Share
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel... — John Burroughs Copy Share
Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights Declaration, and… — John Burroughs Copy Share
“Go to the sea or climb the mountain, and with the ruggedest and the savagest you will find likewise the fairest and the most… — John Burroughs Copy Share
