All John Burroughs Quotes
- In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal. Behold
- Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is… Burn
- Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails… Accepting
- Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks… Any
- To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is… All
- The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment. All
- The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it… Background
- The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche. Avalanche
- Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution. Inspirational
- The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate. Contemplate
- Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the… Behind
- Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a… Follow
- Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a… Bitter
- How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us… All
- The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us. Christianity
- Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode. Abode
- A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and… Activity
- We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks. Cannot Walk
- I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the… Aspiration
- To see Earth fully we already need to love it Earth