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If you think you can do it, you can. — John Burroughs

[T]he cold warms me - after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove. — John Burroughs

Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode. — John Burroughs

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. — John Burroughs

The God of the Puritans ... was a monster too horrible to contemplate. — John Burroughs

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

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

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then. — John Burroughs

One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth. — John Burroughs

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. — John Burroughs

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. — John Burroughs

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

The place to observe nature is where you are. — John Burroughs

How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats! — John Burroughs

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. — John Burroughs

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather. — John Burroughs

Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Without death and decay, how could life go on? — John Burroughs

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. — John Burroughs

In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal. — John Burroughs

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. — John Burroughs

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

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking — John Burroughs

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution. — 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

You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else. — John Burroughs

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

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology. — John Burroughs

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. — John Burroughs

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. — John Burroughs

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. — John Burroughs

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

Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times — John Burroughs

I still find each day too short.. — John Burroughs

Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live. — John Burroughs

Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it. — John Burroughs

O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best ... — 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 see Earth fully we already need to love it — John Burroughs

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche. — John Burroughs

Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work. — John Burroughs

THE JOHN CARTER OF MARS COLLECTION .................. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap. — John Burroughs

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

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. — John Burroughs

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

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides. — John Burroughs

We are made strong by what we overcome. — John Burroughs

The secret of happiness is something to do — John Burroughs

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 'To rise above little things'. — John Burroughs

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

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

The deeper our insight into the methods of nature ... the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us. — John Burroughs

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. — John Burroughs

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. — John Burroughs

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

I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture. — John Burroughs

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. — John Burroughs

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians. — John Burroughs

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative — John Burroughs

If you want to see birds, you must have birds in your heart. — John Burroughs

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

Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp. — John Burroughs

The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment. — John Burroughs

We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry. — John Burroughs

You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else and stop trying. — John Burroughs

I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree. — John Burroughs

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. — John Burroughs

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

Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also. — John Burroughs

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth. — John Burroughs

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare. — John Burroughs

Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten! — John Burroughs

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

We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks. — John Burroughs

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature ... — John Burroughs

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