John Burroughs

As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin,…

— John Burroughs

Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches…

— John Burroughs

When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type,…

— John Burroughs

Science sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into…

— John Burroughs

Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that…

— John Burroughs

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

— John Burroughs

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

— John Burroughs

When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or…

— John Burroughs

In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs…

— John Burroughs

In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence…

— John Burroughs

One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.

— John Burroughs

I still find each day too short..

— John Burroughs

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel...

— John Burroughs

Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights…

— John Burroughs

“Go to the sea or climb the mountain, and with the ruggedest and the savagest you will find likewise the fairest and…

— John Burroughs

Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with…

— John Burroughs

The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth…

— John Burroughs

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

— John Burroughs

A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.

— John Burroughs

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

— John Burroughs

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources…

— John Burroughs

IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not…

— John Burroughs

Basically [United States and France] said "We will use nuclear weapons whenever it suits our purposes to do so." So this expansion…

— John Burroughs

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

— John Burroughs

When you bait the hook with your heart, the fish always bite.

— John Burroughs