If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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 BURROUGHSOne of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
JOHN BURROUGHSI go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
JOHN BURROUGHSA somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
JOHN BURROUGHSI crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHSLeap, and the net will appear.
JOHN BURROUGHSNearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
JOHN BURROUGHSA man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
JOHN BURROUGHSNothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
JOHN BURROUGHSHow many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
JOHN BURROUGHS