John Burroughs Quotes

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

  John Burroughs

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Beautifully, Grow

• 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

• Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

  John Burroughs

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

  John Burroughs

  Topics in Inspirational

• 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

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

  John Burroughs

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Think, Friends, Find, Book, Books

• Leap, and the net will appear.

  John Burroughs

  Topics in Motivational

  Tags in Faith

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

  John Burroughs

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Senses, Healed

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

  John Burroughs

  Topics in Advice

• 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

  Topics in Education, Nature

  Tags in Ethics

• Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. Stand in your own dooryard and you have eight thousand miles of solid ground beneath you, and all the sidereal splendors overhead.

  John Burroughs

  Topics in Life, Opportunity

  Tags in Now, Presence

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

  John Burroughs

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Always, Am, Ten, Than, Year, Old, Older

John Burroughs (34)

Birth:	3rd April, 1837
Death:	29th March, 1921
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Naturalist

About

John Burroughs was born near Roxbury, Delaware County, New York, USA. He was an American naturalist and nature essayist who lived and wrote after the manner of Henry David Thoreau, studying and celebrating nature. In his earlier years he worked as a teacher and a farmer and for nine years as a clerk in the Treasury Department. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871. His chief books, including Birds and Poets, Locusts and Wild Honey, Signs and Seasons, and Ways of Nature. He also wrote a volume of poems, Bird and Bough. Other collections of his essays are Time and Change, The Summit of the Years, The Breath of Life, Under the Apple Trees, and Field and Study.

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