Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it?… — 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,… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life. Where country life is safe… — 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 most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The lesson which life constantly repeats is to 'look under your feet.' You are always nearer to the divine and the true… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, for all the walks I want to… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one,… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam.… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil;… — 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
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
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