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 beginblamediscourage Change image and share on social
The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark, secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer. John Burroughs crowndarkeasily share on social
England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer. John Burroughs comparativelycooldrought Change image and share on social
How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate. John Burroughs bristlebudclimate Change image and share on social
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation. John Burroughs bearmakenaturalist Change image and share on social
Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain. John Burroughs bardiccenturycountry Change image and share on social
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. John Burroughs draweasilyman Change image and share on social
I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either. John Burroughs babybirthbloom share on social
We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold. John Burroughs beginbuymain Change image and share on social
One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury. Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height. John Burroughs boldbreakcapable share on social