John Burroughs

""Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.""

- John Burroughs

"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

"I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey"

- John Burroughs

"It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it."

- John Burroughs

"You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush."

- John Burroughs

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

- John Burroughs

"I go to Nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put together."

- John Burroughs

"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

- John Burroughs

"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life."

- John Burroughs

"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

"Leap, and the net will appear."

- John Burroughs

"And all the world is glad with May."

- John Burroughs

"When purple finches sing and soar when vernal gladness runnin o’er — when joys like these salute the sense then waiting long hath recompense and all the world is glad with May."

- John Burroughs

"In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom."

- John Burroughs

"One resolution I have made and try always to keep is this: To rise above the little things."

- John Burroughs

"The simplicity of winter has a deep moral."

- John Burroughs

"He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter."

- John Burroughs

"In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp."

- John Burroughs

"In October a maple-tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp."

- John Burroughs

"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

- John Burroughs

"August is the month of the high-sailing hawks."

- John Burroughs

"How beautifully leaves grow old! How full of light and color are their last days!"

- John Burroughs

"The November wind has a sound different from any other, a low, dry whispering through the bare branches."

- John Burroughs

"He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter... In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity."

- John Burroughs

"In October a maple-tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days its presence helps to dispel the gloom."

- John Burroughs