John Burroughs – 22 Quotes

22 Quotes by John Burroughs

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

– 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

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

– 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.

– John Burroughs

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

– 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

The secret of happiness is something to do.

– John Burroughs

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

– John Burroughs

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

– 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

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

If you think you can do it, you can.

– John Burroughs

Leap, and the net will appear.

– John Burroughs

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

– 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

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.

– John Burroughs

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

– John Burroughs

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

– 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

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

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

– 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