John Burroughs Quotes

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
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
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
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The 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
Truth You Speak Key Three Own Top Some Voice Scenes Layers Putting Always Juggle Balls Five Then Acting Your Start Two
To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives: the fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top. John Burroughs
Me Nothing Tree Else Extreme Top Fine About Delicacy Remarkable Bottom Leaves Cells Which Mechanism Lives Grows
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. John Burroughs
Man Will Advice Unless Earth Positively Bad Take He Certain Who Hardly
I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth. John Burroughs
Country Kind Would District See Could Lake Wordsworth Produce
The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life. John Burroughs
Life Nature Looking Own Lover Something Facts He Mere Terms His Translate Meanings
The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world. John Burroughs
World Light Must All Things See His Experiences Things
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare. John Burroughs
Life Struggle Life Is A Warfare
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. John Burroughs
Believe Our Minds Easier Always Affirmative Deny Than Naturally
Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations. John Burroughs
Life Sometimes Will Thought Worried City Generations Am Coming Effect
There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly. John Burroughs
Gay Champion Husband More Never He Feeds She Devoted Female Male Times Than Escort Sitting Bluebird Happier While Regularly Her
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock. John Burroughs
Spring Birds Evidence Would-Be Find Even
Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields. John Burroughs
Home Man Animals Depend Some More Outrun He Outwit Powers Him Because Does His Than Different Fields Them Reason Special Many Lives

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