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John Burroughs Quotes | Quotes said by John Burroughs

  • John Burroughs Quote #1

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


  • John Burroughs Quote #2

    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 Quote #3

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

  • John Burroughs Quote #4

    Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

  • John Burroughs Quote #5

    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 Quote #6

    I am in love with this world... I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvest, I have waited upon its seasons, and always have I reaped what I have sown. I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.

  • John Burroughs Quote #7

    I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

  • John Burroughs Quote #8

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

  • John Burroughs Quote #9

    I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

  • John Burroughs Quote #10

    I have loved the feel of the grass under my feet, and the sound of the running streams by my side. The hum of the wind in the tree-tops has always been good music to me, and the face of the fields has often comforted me more than the faces of men.

  • John Burroughs Quote #11

    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 Quote #12

    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. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

  • John Burroughs Quote #13

    If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

  • John Burroughs Quote #14

    If you think you can do it, you can.

  • John Burroughs Quote #15

    Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

  • John Burroughs Quote #16

    Leap and the net will appear

  • John Burroughs Quote #17

    Leap, and the net will appear.

  • John Burroughs Quote #18

    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 Quote #19

    One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

  • John Burroughs Quote #20

    The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.

  • John Burroughs Quote #21

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

  • John Burroughs Quote #22

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

  • John Burroughs Quote #23

    The secret of happiness is something to do

  • John Burroughs Quote #24

    The secret of happiness is something to do.

  • John Burroughs Quote #25

    The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

  • John Burroughs Quote #26

    The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

  • John Burroughs Quote #27

    The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an end. We must adjust our notions to the discovery that things are not shaped to him, but that he is shaped to them. The air was not made for his lungs, but he has lungs because there is air; the light was not created for his eye, but he has eyes because there is light. All the forces of nature are going their own way; man avails himself of them, or catches a ride as best he can. If he keeps his seat, he prospers; if he misses his hold and falls, he is crushed.

  • John Burroughs Quote #28

    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 Quote #29

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

  • John Burroughs Quote #30

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

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