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 doe sacred
Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
thinking-of-you retirement short-life
I still find each day too short..
goes-on decay life-goes-on
Without death and decay, how could life go on?
life strong war
I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality of the Nature Providence is best; that we are made strong by what we overcome; that man is man because he is as free to do evil as to do good; that life is as free to develop hostile forms as to develop friendly; that power waits upon him who earns it; that disease, wars, the unloosened, devastating elemental forces have each and all played their part in developing and hardening man and giving him the heroic fiber.
life spiritual thinking
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
life sports thinking
If you think you can do it, you can.
life war struggle
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
life stars opportunity
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
life live-life love-is
Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.
inspirational life philosophical
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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.
love life motivational
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
inspirational life birthday
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
happiness meaningful purpose secret seeking
The secret of happiness is having something meaningful to do, seeking purpose