Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are busy and not… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at… — 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
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
