Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
JOHN BURROUGHSSome men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
JOHN BURROUGHSWhere country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
JOHN BURROUGHSI still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
JOHN BURROUGHSWriting is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
JOHN BURROUGHSScience has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
JOHN BURROUGHSI find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
JOHN BURROUGHSI am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
JOHN BURROUGHSNothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
JOHN BURROUGHSIt is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
JOHN BURROUGHSMore than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
JOHN BURROUGHSMy motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
JOHN BURROUGHSEmerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
JOHN BURROUGHS