In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
A plump, well-fed stream is as satisfying to behold as a well-fed animal or a thrifty tree. One source of charm in… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So… — 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
