Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

John Burroughs

Read through the most famous quotes from John Burroughs




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


— John Burroughs


#go #healed #i #order #put

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


— John Burroughs


#age #always #am #i #i am

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


— John Burroughs


#color #days #full #grow #how

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


#blame #discouraged #else #failure #get

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


#easier #get #moral #more #out

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


— John Burroughs


#endure #man #mend #miracle #much

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


— John Burroughs


#difficult #distant #great #great opportunity #lure

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


— John Burroughs


#kingdom #mind #place #state






About John Burroughs

John Burroughs Quotes




Did you know about John Burroughs?

Long for their fantastical representations of wildlife he also denounced the booming genre of "naturalistic" animal stories as "yellow journalism of the woods". He continued to write and continued as a federal bank examiner for several more years. Among Burroughs's classmates was future financier Jay Gould.

By the turn of the 20th century he had become a virtual cultural institution[peacock term] in his own right: the Grand Old Man of Nature at a time when the American romance with the idea of nature and the American conservation movement had come fully into their own. " The result was a body of work whose perfect resonance with the tone of its cultural moment perhaps explains both its enormous popularity at that time and its relative obscurity since. His extraordinary popularity and popular visibility were sustained by a prolific stream of essay collections beginning with Wake-Robin in 1871.

back to top