Quotes by John Burroughs

“I am in love with this world... I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvest, I have waited upon its seasons, and always have I reaped what I have sown. I have climbed its mountains, roamed ...”

“The secret of happiness is something to do”

“Nature we have always with us, an in exhaustible store-house of that which moves the heart, appeals to the mind and fires the imagination -- health to the body, a stimulus to the intellect, and joy...”

“Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse. Winter is of a more heroic cast, and addresses ...”

“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”

“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above little things.”

“To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.”

“The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an end. We must adjust our notions to the discovery that things are not shaped to him,...”

“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.”

“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 established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles ...”

“You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.”

“The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.”

“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

“A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.”

“England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.”

“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 established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles...”

“The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite? Nothing. The I...”

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”

“How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”