Nature Quotes by John Burroughs

Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.

— John Burroughs

The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.

— John Burroughs

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

— John Burroughs

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

— John Burroughs

We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'

— John Burroughs

To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.

— John Burroughs

The place to observe nature is where you are.

— John Burroughs

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

— John Burroughs

Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.

— John Burroughs

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into…

— John Burroughs

Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.

— John Burroughs

The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.

— John Burroughs

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a…

— John Burroughs

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

— John Burroughs

The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes…

— John Burroughs

We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the…

— John Burroughs

I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than…

— John Burroughs

Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in…

— John Burroughs

Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds…

— John Burroughs

Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for…

— John Burroughs

Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with…

— John Burroughs

To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the…

— John Burroughs

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at…

— John Burroughs

I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed…

— John Burroughs

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the…

— John Burroughs

How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel…

— John Burroughs

Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees…

— John Burroughs

“The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident,…

— John Burroughs

“I am in love with this world... I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvest, I have waited upon its…

— John Burroughs

In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

— John Burroughs

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature…

— John Burroughs

Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the…

— John Burroughs

As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.

— John Burroughs

The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

— John Burroughs

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

— John Burroughs

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

— John Burroughs

When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of…

— John Burroughs

The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own…

— John Burroughs

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into…

— John Burroughs

How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

— John Burroughs