When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent… — 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
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of 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
