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
“Go to the sea or climb the mountain, and with the ruggedest and the savagest you will find likewise the fairest and… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
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
“The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident,… — 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
Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The poor old earth which has mothered us and nursed us we treat with scant respect. Our awe and veneration we reserve… — 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
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
We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Next to the laborer in the fields, the walker holds the closest relation to the soil; and he holds a closer and… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode. — 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
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
As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds… — 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
