3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
