Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business,… — 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
Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I am not going to advocate ... the abandoning of the improved modes of travel; but I am going to brag as… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are… — 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
Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of… — 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
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
