He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
JOHN BURROUGHSHe is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
JOHN BURROUGHSJoy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
JOHN BURROUGHSI am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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 BURROUGHSThe naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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 BURROUGHSTo be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
JOHN BURROUGHSNot so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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 BURROUGHSLeap, and the net will appear.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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 BURROUGHSThe key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
JOHN BURROUGHS