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
life sports thinking
If you think you can do it, you can.
believe optimism mind
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
flower grace special
The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.
fashion weather kitchen
[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.
happiness thinking states
Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.
cheer color bird
The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all.
spring night air
Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent her fragrant garments, Her foot is on the stair.
life war struggle
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
work hands secret
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
summer winter world
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
yield facts significant
Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact...
communication men roots
Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
heart fishing hook
When you bait the hook with your heart, the fish always bite.
mother religious heart
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. There are no heretics in Nature's church; all are believers, all are communicants. The beauty of natural religion is that you have it all the time; you do not have to seek it afar off in myths and legends, in catacombs, in garbled texts, in miracles of dead saints or wine-bibbing friars. It is of today; it is now and here; it is everywhere.