One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ...… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. — 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
To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to 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.... — 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
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take,… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into… — 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
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
When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap. — 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
The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at… — 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
The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes… — 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
The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in… — 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
