The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a… — 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
I am in love with this world. It has been my home. It has been my point of outlook into the universe.… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also. — 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
