I still find each day too short for a... - John Burroughs - Quotes.Pub

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.

Birthday Quotes / Life Quotes

John Burroughs Quotes

Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more ’gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.

The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. All that I ever had, and still have, may be yours by stretching forth your hand and taking it.

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

Literature does not grow wild in the woods. Every artist does something more than copy Nature; more comes out in his account than goes into the original experience.

To interpret Nature is not to improve upon her: it is to draw her out; it is to have an emotional intercourse with her, absorb her, and reproduce her tinged with the colors of the spirit.

Nature we have always with us, an in exhaustible store-house of that which moves the heart, appeals to the mind and fires the imagination – health to the body, a stimulus to the intellect, and joy to the soul.

He said afterwards that his ranch life had been the making of him. It had built him up and hardened him physically, and it had opened his eyes to the wealth of manly character among the plainsmen and cattlemen.

The lesson in running brooks is that motion is a great purifier and health-producer. When the brook ceases to run, it soon stagnates. It keeps in touch with the great vital currents when it is in motion, and unites with other brooks to help make the river. In motion it soon leaves all mud and sediment behind. Do not proper work and the exercise of will power have the same effect upon our lives?

Science kills credulity and superstition, but to the well-balanced mind it enhances the feeling of wonder, of veneration, and of kinship which we feel in the presence of the miraculous universe.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

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.

Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!

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.

Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.

I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.

Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.

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

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

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

Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact...

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.

Reading Quotes

Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.

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.

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