Quotes by : John Burroughs

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

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

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.....

Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of....

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

Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till....

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

When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer....

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