All John Burroughs Quotes
- In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The… Air
- How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats! Bluebird
- Without death and decay, how could life go on? Death
- Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is… Always Nearer
- If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.... Book
- To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter...… Air
- One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’. Character
- The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power… Always Nearer
- Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has… Best
- Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into… Accidental
- I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. Bee
- Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. Center
- Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and… All
- One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the… Celestial
- Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp. Every Leaf
- Science sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into the physical and… Any
- A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. Begins
- To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. Facts
- If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at… Books
- The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power… Always Nearer
- For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. Always Work
- One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. Little