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“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.”
-- John Burroughs

#Inspirational #Positive #Wisdom
“We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.”
-- John Burroughs

#Wind #Storm #Demon
“Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact...”
-- John Burroughs

#Yield #Facts #Significant
“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
-- John Burroughs

#Inspirational #Positive #Running
“In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.”
-- John Burroughs

#Stars #Winter #Moon
“Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.”
-- John Burroughs

#Mind #Resolution
“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: â€˜To rise above little thingsâ€™.”
-- John Burroughs

#Inspirational #Funny #Character
“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.”
-- John Burroughs

#Inspirational #Life #Birthday
“I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the constellations Orion, Cassiopeiaâ€™s Chair, the Big Dipper; the only thing real in them is the stars, and the only thing real in the creeds is the soulâ€™s aspiration toward the Infinite.”
-- John Burroughs

#Stars #Real #Men
“Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.”
-- John Burroughs

#Science #Joy #Curiosity
“The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.”
-- John Burroughs

#Nature #Mind #World
“I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.”
-- John Burroughs

#Flower #Book #Honey
“How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
-- John Burroughs

#Beauty #Beautiful #Light
“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.”
-- John Burroughs

#Nature #Educational #Garden
“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.”
-- John Burroughs

#Winter #Fire #Air
“To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration; to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables; to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy.”
-- John Burroughs

#Nature #Inspiration #Artist
“If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature....”
-- John Burroughs

#Book #Names #Three
“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 are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
-- John Burroughs

#Inspirational #Gratitude #Morning
“I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.”
-- John Burroughs

#Nature #Rain #Wind
“What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel...”
-- John Burroughs

#Winter #Artist #Canvas
“Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.”
-- John Burroughs

#Communication #Men #Feet
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
-- John Burroughs

#Music #Nature #Health
“Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.”
-- John Burroughs

#Life #War #Struggle
“Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.”
-- John Burroughs

#Men #Nails #Literature
“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.”
-- John Burroughs

#Love #Life #Motivational
“I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.”
-- John Burroughs

#Work #Hands #Secret
“When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.”
-- John Burroughs

#Blue #Color #Sky
“To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.”
-- John Burroughs

#Inspirational #Life #Philosophical
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
-- John Burroughs

#Summer #Winter #World
“Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night.”
-- John Burroughs

#Heart #Night #Self

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