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
weather anxiety born
I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.
rain thinking mind
I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture.
truth hints half
One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.
literature genius investment
Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times
thinking action power-of-thought
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking
time atmosphere age
The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.
dog nature men
Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is of the fleas. Her waves will drown him, her fire burn him, and her earth devour him, her storms and lightning smite him, as if he were only a dog.
nature order may
In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.
lying rocks finals
The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all, and are the final source of all. ... Time, geologic time, looks out at us from the rocks as from no other objects in the landscape.
lying hands heaven
One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand-to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.
literature accepting sole
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
fun work blessed
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
men advice earth
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
philosophy philosophical battle
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.