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
american-author facts imagination imagine treat
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
fall air weather
Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall.
sweet flower ambition
The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook.
water earth holy
Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.
christianity incredibles method
The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
flower heart men
How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us - are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit; and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.
goodbye running sweet
Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.
lying character fate
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
god religion monsters
The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.
fall law illustration
The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.
needs earth
To see Earth fully we already need to love it
life doe sacred
Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
summer home autumn
I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows.... glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in its foliage, warmth in its fibers, and health in it the year round.
thinking-of-you retirement short-life
I still find each day too short..