Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air…

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

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

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

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

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

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

— John Burroughs

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

— John Burroughs

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

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

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

One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.

— John Burroughs

I still find each day too short..

— John Burroughs

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel...

— John Burroughs

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

“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