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
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
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
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
There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter. John Burroughs
Pride Laughter Seems Something Mirth Self-Conscious Implies Sort Very Mockery Squirrels Human Apparent
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind. John Burroughs
Art Bird Secret Bits Kind Bizarre Nest Weaving Seem Betrayed Give Structure Both Conceal Material Traditions Which Then Showy Now Now And Then Away Violate Position
The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth. John Burroughs
Man Anger Dog Beast Teeth Kick Would Tail Never Him Known Limb His Quick Imprint Quickly Hit Often Door Held Show Resent Slammed Receive
No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through. John Burroughs
World Country Pedestrian Else Out Kindly Gives Through No-One He Takes Looks Passes Much
Nearly 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 Burroughs
Every Considerable Unless Neighborhood More Takes New Like Dead Make Makes Exhaust Years Any Acquaintance Season Nearly Treasures Flowers Set
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
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