29 Quotes By John Burroughs


To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
John Burroughs on age

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 on alone

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
John Burroughs on birthday

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs on failure

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
John Burroughs on failure

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
John Burroughs on great

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
John Burroughs on happiness

The secret of happiness is something to do.
John Burroughs on happiness

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
John Burroughs on history

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
John Burroughs on imagination

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs on life

For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John Burroughs on love

Leap, and the net will appear.
John Burroughs on motivational

If you think you can do it, you can.
John Burroughs on motivational

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs on nature

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs on nature

For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John Burroughs on patience

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
John Burroughs on religion

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
John Burroughs on religion

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 on science