John Burroughs Quotes:
Ocupation: Essayist
Life: April 3, 1837 - March 29, 1921
Birthday: April 3
Death: March 29
IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not accept the universe in a very whole-hearted manner. Looking up at the midnight stars, he exclaimed: "A sad spectacle! If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be not inhabited, what a waste of space!"
source: John Burroughs (1924). “Accepting the universe”
topic: Stars, Sadness, Science, Waste Of Space
