All John Burroughs Quotes
- Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to… Affords
- Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world. Atheist
- The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast… Age
- Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live. Far
- Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels and… All
- Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour… Aging
- IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not accept the universe… Accept
- In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye… Aiding
- The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these… Earth
- The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the… Blood
- The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the… All
- The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all,… Akin
- [Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of… All
- I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt… Beauty
- The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more… All
- 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