John Burroughs Quotes

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John Burroughs

Profession : Author

Birth : April 3, 1837

Leap, and the net will appear.

John Burroughs

If you think you can do it, you can.

John Burroughs

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

John Burroughs

Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.

John Burroughs

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

John Burroughs

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

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

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

John Burroughs

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

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

John Burroughs

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

John Burroughs

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

John Burroughs

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

John Burroughs

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

John Burroughs

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

John Burroughs

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

John Burroughs

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

John Burroughs

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

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

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