John Burroughs
John Burroughs
John Burroughswas an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth3 April 1837
CountryUnited States of America
wind storm demon
We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.
summer country spring
For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!
hate moon apples
The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd say if it is just us, an awful lot of space is going to waste. The earth is not alone, it is not like a single apple on a tree; there are many apples on the tree, and there are many trees in the orchard.
knowledge thinking wild-life
[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of wild life. He probably knew tenfold more natural history than all the presidents who had preceded him, and, I think one is safe in saying, more human history also.
winter artist canvas
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel...
heart bird want
If you want to see birds, you must have birds in your heart.
happiness inner-peace secret
The secret of happiness is something to do.
travel men stones
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
mind resolution
Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.
color sky blue
When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.
flower book honey
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.
men water may
A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.
nature rain wind
I am in love with this world . . . 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.
music nature health
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.