To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
JOHN BURROUGHSSometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
JOHN BURROUGHSMost young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
JOHN BURROUGHSYou are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
JOHN BURROUGHSNature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
JOHN BURROUGHSEngland is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
JOHN BURROUGHSIt is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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 BURROUGHSAs with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
JOHN BURROUGHS