The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. John Burroughs More Quotes by John Burroughs More Quotes From John Burroughs I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. John Burroughs funeral feelings museums I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture. John Burroughs mind rain thinking If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. John Burroughs guides accepting literature Without death and decay, how could life go on? John Burroughs life-goes-on decay goes-on The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us. John Burroughs pleasure journey may I do not think I exaggerate the importance or the charms of pedestrianism, or our need as a people to cultivate the art. I think it would tend to soften the national manners, to teach us the meaning of leisure, to acquaint us with the charms of the open air, to strengthen and foster the tie between the race and the land. No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through. John Burroughs country art thinking One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then. John Burroughs philosophical battle philosophy There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. John Burroughs earth advice men Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten! John Burroughs eight annoying next 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. John Burroughs nature religious mother One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth. John Burroughs birth youth return O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best. John Burroughs azure coats hue The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us. John Burroughs method incredibles christianity 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. John Burroughs nature dog men Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall. John Burroughs air weather fall I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows.... glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in its foliage, warmth in its fibers, and health in it the year round. John Burroughs autumn summer home The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche. John Burroughs illustration science fall The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate. John Burroughs god monsters religion I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather. John Burroughs anxiety born weather I still find each day too short. John Burroughs short-life thinking-of-you retirement
