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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.

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

John Burroughs

Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.

John Burroughs

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

John Burroughs

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

John Burroughs

Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.

John Burroughs

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

John Burroughs

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

John Burroughs

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

John Burroughs

Leap, and the net will appear.

John Burroughs

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

John Burroughs

One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury. Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.

John Burroughs

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

John Burroughs

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

John Burroughs

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

John Burroughs

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

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

How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

John Burroughs

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

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

The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite? Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.

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

Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.

John Burroughs

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

There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.

John Burroughs

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

John Burroughs

We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.

John Burroughs

England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.

John Burroughs

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

John Burroughs

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

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

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 went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.

John Burroughs

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

John Burroughs

I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.

John Burroughs

All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.

John Burroughs

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

John Burroughs