Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.” — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities - political, commercial,… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops… — 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
The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else and stop trying.” — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
…success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go… — 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
The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the… — 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
