The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. John Burroughs More Quotes by John Burroughs More Quotes From John Burroughs Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times. John Burroughs investmentgeniusliterature Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode. John Burroughs holyearthwater One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests. John Burroughs hintsnaturetruth The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology. John Burroughs atmospheregardentime In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal. John Burroughs naturemayorder The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all, and are the final source of all. ... Time, geologic time, looks out at us from the rocks as from no other objects in the landscape. John Burroughs rockssciencelying In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters. John Burroughs eyerealscience If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or be careful how you taste this December vintage. The first sip may chill, but a full draught warms and invigorates. John Burroughs vintagewinewinter 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! John Burroughs summerspringcountry Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. John Burroughs runningsweetgoodbye The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. John Burroughs junesummerwinter There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all people and what a wretched world it would be. John Burroughs would-beworkpeople IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not accept the universe in a very whole-hearted manner. Looking up at the midnight stars, he exclaimed: "A sad spectacle! If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be not inhabited, what a waste of space!" John Burroughs sadnessstarsscience The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when we see in the storm-clouds as it were, the veins and ore-beds of it? I imagine it is equally abundant in winter, and more equable and better tempered. Who ever breasted a snowstorm without being excited and exhilarated, as if this meteor had come charged with latent auroræ of the North, as doubtless it has? It is like being pelted with sparks from a battery. John Burroughs summerwinterthinking All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer it is a sort of complacent purr, as the breezes stroke down its sides; but in winter always the same low, sullen growl. John Burroughs summerwinternight How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know. John Burroughs readingdoebook Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. John Burroughs voicekeystwo One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth. John Burroughs returnmaypast ....success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it. John Burroughs knowingfeetheart We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking. John Burroughs masspracticepeople
