01UndatedThere is no preservative and antiseptic, nothing that keeps one’s heart young like sympathy, like giving one’s self with enthusiasm to some worthy thing or cause.John Burroughs / quote ↗
02UndatedDo not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.John Burroughs / quote ↗
03UndatedI 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.John Burroughs / quote ↗
05UndatedOne resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.John Burroughs / quote ↗
07UndatedI 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. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.John Burroughs / quote ↗
08UndatedThe 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, but that he is shaped to them. The air was not made for his lungs, but he has lungs because there is air; the light was not created for his eye, but he has eyes because there is light. All the forces of nature are going their own way; man avails himself of them, or catches a ride as best he can. If he keeps his seat, he prospers; if he misses his hold and falls, he is crushed.John Burroughs / quote ↗
09UndatedI go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.John Burroughs / quote ↗
10UndatedI 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 its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.John Burroughs / quote ↗
11UndatedNature 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 to the soul.John Burroughs / quote ↗
12UndatedSummer 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 the intellect. The severe studies and disciplines come easier in winter. One imposes larger tasks upon himself, and is less tolerant of his own weaknesses...The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere, is not lost either upon the head or the heart. It is the philosopher coming back from the banquet and the wine to a cup of water and a crust of bread.John Burroughs / quote ↗
13UndatedYou can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.John Burroughs / quote ↗
14UndatedMan 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 to it.John Burroughs / quote ↗
16UndatedHow beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.John Burroughs / quote ↗
18UndatedHappiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you and not you overtake it.John Burroughs / quote ↗
19UndatedFew persons realize how much of their happiness such as it is is dependent upon their work.John Burroughs / quote ↗
21UndatedA man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.John Burroughs / quote ↗
22UndatedA man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.John Burroughs / quote ↗
23UndatedEngland 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.John Burroughs / quote ↗
24UndatedThe 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 Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.John Burroughs / quote ↗
