As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.


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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural&#...
JOHN BURROUGHS
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupatio...
JOHN BURROUGHS
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark o...
JOHN BURROUGHS
In the fields and woods more than anything else all things come to those who wait, because all thing...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and w...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The secret of happiness is something to do.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
JOHN BURROUGHS
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
JOHN BURROUGHS
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer th...
JOHN BURROUGHS
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, ...
JOHN BURROUGHS
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
JOHN BURROUGHS
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influen...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communi...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of t...
JOHN BURROUGHS
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things."
JOHN BURROUGHS
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all -- that has been my religion.
JOHN BURROUGHS
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
JOHN BURROUGHS
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst tim...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Without death and decay, how could life go on?
JOHN BURROUGHS
Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and...
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I s...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmun...
JOHN BURROUGHS
I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live ...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the ...
JOHN BURROUGHS
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration ...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more fami...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
JOHN BURROUGHS
In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy da...
JOHN BURROUGHS
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed b...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve ...
JOHN BURROUGHS
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
JOHN BURROUGHS
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The momen...
JOHN BURROUGHS
It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the real...
JOHN BURROUGHS
England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
JOHN BURROUGHS
August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haz...
JOHN BURROUGHS
One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challen...
JOHN BURROUGHS
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
JOHN BURROUGHS
To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not de...
JOHN BURROUGHS
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the su...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, i...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then ...
JOHN BURROUGHS
When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his ham...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent...
JOHN BURROUGHS
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The ...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consci...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being...
JOHN BURROUGHS
One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, ...
JOHN BURROUGHS
If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christia...
JEFF BURROUGHS
Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larcen...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice fro...
JOHN BURROUGHS
Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times
JOHN BURROUGHS
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thin...
JOHN BURROUGHS
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
JOHN BURROUGHS
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I...
JOHN BURROUGHS