For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together. — 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
Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency,… — 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 am in love with this world... I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvest, I have waited upon its… — 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
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
The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent thinking and knowing faculty, but… — 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
