John Burroughs Quotes
Top 76 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Burroughs
John Burroughs Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.
How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!
Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
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.
The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.
In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.
Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!
I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture.
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.
The deeper our insight into the methods of nature ... the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
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.
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else and stop trying.
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.