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John Burroughs

American Author

Born: Apr 3, 1837

Died: Mar 29, 1921

Life Man Nature Will Winter You

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

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

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

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

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

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

Writing 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 Burroughs

Writing Vision Our Saw Catching Tide Fish Left Up Reporting Shores After Which Places Depressed Low Far Us

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation. John Burroughs

Made Born Only Poets Observation Like Years Then Painstaking

To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings - travels in warm climes. To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death. John Burroughs

Life Death Winter Struggle Soul Together Long Others Our Insect More More Or Less Prototype Still Northern Human Human Beings While Again Forms Fierce Warm Lands Body Means Fortunate Less Who Many Beings Keep Travels Sleep

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