John Burroughs Quotes

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

We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of Hurry. - 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

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

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

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. - John Burroughs

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these ar. - John Burroughs

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

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

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. - John Burroughs

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