Quotes by 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.

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.

Leap, and the net will appear.

If you think you can do it, you can.

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

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.

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.

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

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

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.