Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power. John Burroughs More Quotes by John Burroughs More Quotes From John Burroughs We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.' John Burroughs now used nature god We are really here to be happy and to make others happy. John Burroughs be-happy here others happy My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me. I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth. John Burroughs my-life great me life Leap, and the net will appear. John Burroughs net will leap motivational I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either. John Burroughs me chemistry flower baby Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone. John Burroughs telephone cannot automobile wisdom Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit. I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old. John Burroughs sunshine youth age life Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another. John Burroughs down sail flying tree As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them. John Burroughs loved more rocks nature
