There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
JOHN BURROUGHSHow many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
JOHN BURROUGHSEngland 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 BURROUGHSLeap, and the net will appear.
JOHN BURROUGHSSome scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
JOHN BURROUGHSWhitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
JOHN BURROUGHSAs with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
JOHN BURROUGHSSome men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
JOHN BURROUGHSSecluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
JOHN BURROUGHS