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
book names three
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature....
nature inspiration artist
To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration; to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables; to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy.
atheist men world
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
nature law giving
Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks at any infringement of her laws.
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.
nature mind world
The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.
inspiration firefighter wanted
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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.
wind storm demon
We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.
summer country spring
For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!
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.
winter artist canvas
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel...
heart bird want
If you want to see birds, you must have birds in your heart.