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
John Burroughs quotes about
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.
mountain-peaks mountain walks
We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.
life war struggle
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
fashion weather kitchen
[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.
stars winter moon
In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
happiness inner-peace secret
The secret of happiness is something to do.
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.
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.
life sports thinking
If you think you can do it, you can.
attitude positive-thinking godly
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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.
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.
inspirational life philosophical
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.