One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. — 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
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
The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap. — 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
A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam.… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms.… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows… glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds… — 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
