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John Burroughs Quotes
John Burroughs
American
Author
Born:
Apr 3
,
1837
Died:
Mar 29
,
1921
Life
Man
Nature
Will
Winter
You
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Leap, and the net will appear.
John Burroughs
Will
Net
Leap
Appear
If you think you can do it, you can.
John Burroughs
Motivational
You
You Can Do It
Think
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to 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 Burroughs
Life
Morning
Refreshed
Water
Simple
Walk
Bird
Spring
Stars
Enough
Air
Find
Some
Nest
Thrilled
Simple Life
Over
Exhilarating
Rewards
Elated
Evening
Elements
Universal
Night
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs
Nature
Put
Healed
Go
Order
Senses
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John Burroughs
Work
Love
Service
Patience
Worth
Promises
Pay
Paper
Paper Currency
Must
Having
Price
Always
Real
Self-Sacrifice
Currency
Gold
Anything
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
John Burroughs
Life
Winter
Soul
Fire
Air
Sunbeam
Crisp
Architect
Crystal
Frost
Full
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
John Burroughs
Winter
World
Cause
Will
Beauty
Summer
Find
Admiration
He
Equal
Wonder
Who
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
John Burroughs
Failure
Man
Blame
Somebody
Discouraged
Else
He
Until
Times
Begins
Get
Trying
Stops
Many
In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
John Burroughs
Great
Before
Lamp
Tree
Window
Lights
Days
Like
Gloom
October
Up
Cloudy
Room
Your
Dispel
Even
Helps
Maple
Presence
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
John Burroughs
Strength
Broken
Man
Mend
Spirit
Miracle
Only
Endure
Much
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
John Burroughs
Religion
Joy
Universe
Has-Been
About
Been
Curiosity
Keen
The 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 Burroughs
Heart
Light
Longest
Cheerful
Goes
Human
Human Body
Body
Rider
Riders
All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better.
John Burroughs
Winter
Better
Air
Sharper
Sounds
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs
Life
Day
Thoughts
Walks
Think
Too
Books
Find
See
Take
Read
Still
Friends
Short
Want
Each
Each Day
If 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
Life
Nature
Three
Resources
Books
Say
Constant
Name
Most
Greatest
Always
Least
Were
Hand
Friends
Precious
Should
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
John Burroughs
Religion
Mind
State
Kingdom
Heaven
Place
The 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, secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
John Burroughs
Dark
First
Pool
Gathering
Waters
Summer
Summit
Easily
Some
Haunts
Crown
Takes
She
Lilies
First Place
Rocks
Where
Place
Star
Among
Her
Secluded
My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
John Burroughs
Try
Imitate
Followed
My Motto
Voice
Never
Looked
Inward
Always
Motto
Anybody
The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
John Burroughs
Death
Queen
Will
Nothing
Starve
Herself
Rival
Never
She
Sting
Bees
Common
Use
Her
Royalty
Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
John Burroughs
World
Gave
Books
Emerson
Writer
Lifetime
He
Firmly
His
Fame
Established
Thinker
More 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 Burroughs
Wait
Value
Poet
Other
Must
Rather
More
He
Implies
Make
Him
Himself
Greatest
Understood
His
Than
Taste
Any
Whitman
Growth
We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
John Burroughs
Nature
Entertainment
Soul
Solitude
Ourselves
Talk
Conditions
Tis
Commune
My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me. I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
John Burroughs
Life
Great
Me
Wind
My Life
Accidents
Earth
Has-Been
Born
Seems
Both
Struggles
Had
Undergone
Tide
Been
Losses
Wanted
Fortunate
Grouch
Illness
Lucky
Star
Suffered
Defeats
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
John Burroughs
Wisdom
Telegraph
Telephone
Come
Up
Automobile
Cannot
Railroad
Emerson 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. I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
John Burroughs
Life
Age
Youth
Sunshine
Old
Heights
Find
Spirit
Something
Emerson
Voice
Prophet
He
Spokesman
Idealistic
Him
Does
Leave
His
Gets
Formative
Which
Ever
Grows
Early
Early Life
Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
John Burroughs
Sail
Sense
Down
Tree
Our
Slide
Top
Flyer
Flying
Proper
More
Only
Steep
Foot
He
Another
Because
Than
Squirrel
Agile
Ground
Less
Incline
Helpless
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