The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North… — 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
I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows.... glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter… — 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
In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only… — 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
