Quotes by John Burroughs

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think,...

#Life

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always...

#Opportunity

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

#Age

Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It...

#Happiness

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say...

#Books

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain...

#Advice

Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the...

#Freedom, #Temperament

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

#John Burroughs

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands...

#John Burroughs

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

#John Burroughs

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last...

#John Burroughs

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work,...

#John Burroughs