How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage ...
JOHN BURROUGHS We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain ...
JOHN BURROUGHS As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
JOHN BURROUGHS You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
JOHN BURROUGHS Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; ...
JOHN BURROUGHS All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better.
JOHN BURROUGHS A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else ...
JOHN BURROUGHS Leap, and the net will appear.
JOHN BURROUGHS The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all ...
JOHN BURROUGHS I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
JOHN BURROUGHS A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
JOHN BURROUGHS How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of cong...
JOHN BURROUGHS A plump, well-fed stream is as satisfying to behold as a well-fed animal or a thrifty tree. One sour...
JOHN BURROUGHS There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and...
JOHN BURROUGHS I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural&#...
JOHN BURROUGHS For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupatio...
JOHN BURROUGHS One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
JOHN BURROUGHS Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark o...
JOHN BURROUGHS In the fields and woods more than anything else all things come to those who wait, because all thing...
JOHN BURROUGHS Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and w...
JOHN BURROUGHS The secret of happiness is something to do.
JOHN BURROUGHS Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
JOHN BURROUGHS It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
JOHN BURROUGHS The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer th...
JOHN BURROUGHS I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, ...
JOHN BURROUGHS How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
JOHN BURROUGHS For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
JOHN BURROUGHS Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influen...
JOHN BURROUGHS Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
JOHN BURROUGHS Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communi...
JOHN BURROUGHS The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of t...
JOHN BURROUGHS One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things."
JOHN BURROUGHS Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all -- that has been my religion.
JOHN BURROUGHS A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
JOHN BURROUGHS It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
JOHN BURROUGHS Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst tim...
JOHN BURROUGHS Without death and decay, how could life go on?
JOHN BURROUGHS The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I s...
JOHN BURROUGHS Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmun...
JOHN BURROUGHS I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live ...
JOHN BURROUGHS The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the ...
JOHN BURROUGHS He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration ...
JOHN BURROUGHS The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its...
JOHN BURROUGHS Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more fami...
JOHN BURROUGHS The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
JOHN BURROUGHS In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy da...
JOHN BURROUGHS To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed b...
JOHN BURROUGHS The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve ...
JOHN BURROUGHS A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
JOHN BURROUGHS I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The momen...
JOHN BURROUGHS It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the real...
JOHN BURROUGHS England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
JOHN BURROUGHS August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haz...
JOHN BURROUGHS One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challen...
JOHN BURROUGHS I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
JOHN BURROUGHS To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not de...
JOHN BURROUGHS It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the su...
JOHN BURROUGHS Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, i...
JOHN BURROUGHS The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then ...
JOHN BURROUGHS When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his ham...
JOHN BURROUGHS The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent...
JOHN BURROUGHS For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The ...
JOHN BURROUGHS Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consci...
JOHN BURROUGHS The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being...
JOHN BURROUGHS One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, ...
JOHN BURROUGHS If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from...
JOHN BURROUGHS Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to...
JOHN BURROUGHS The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larcen...
JOHN BURROUGHS The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
JOHN BURROUGHS Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice fro...
JOHN BURROUGHS Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times
JOHN BURROUGHS To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHS Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thin...
JOHN BURROUGHS The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
JOHN BURROUGHS The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I...
JOHN BURROUGHS If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the...
JOHN BURROUGHS A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else ...
JOHN BURROUGHS To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
JOHN BURROUGHS One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above little things
JOHN BURROUGHS The secret of happiness is having something meaningful to do, seeking purpose
JOHN BURROUGHS Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to...
JOHN BURROUGHS The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
JOHN BURROUGHS It's nothing she would ever have given away. It's value is really sentimental.
JOHN BURROUGHS Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
JOHN BURROUGHS To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
JOHN BURROUGHS You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush."
JOHN BURROUGHS That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot b...
JOHN BURROUGHS To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHS Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
JOHN BURROUGHS One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking
JOHN BURROUGHS If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature...
JOHN BURROUGHS For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the hi...
JOHN BURROUGHS In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the...
JOHN BURROUGHS A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost...
JOHN BURROUGHS Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust t...
JOHN BURROUGHS The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show...
JOHN BURROUGHS Someday is not a day of the week.
JOHN BURROUGHS Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle fiv...
JOHN BURROUGHS Next to the laborer in the fields, the walker holds the closest relation to the soil; and he holds a...
JOHN BURROUGHS Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of...
JOHN BURROUGHS When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and...
JOHN BURROUGHS There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a ...
JOHN BURROUGHS The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds...
JOHN BURROUGHS The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
JOHN BURROUGHS The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her ha...
JOHN BURROUGHS I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a...
JOHN BURROUGHS My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide h...
JOHN BURROUGHS Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle fiv...
JOHN BURROUGHS For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self...
JOHN BURROUGHS Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
JOHN BURROUGHS Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious develop...
JOHN BURROUGHS Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books h...
JOHN BURROUGHS Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature ge...
JOHN BURROUGHS Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short...
JOHN BURROUGHS Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their li...
JOHN BURROUGHS To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed b...
JOHN BURROUGHS Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the ...
JOHN BURROUGHS To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it ...
JOHN BURROUGHS You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else...
JOHN BURROUGHS No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives a...
JOHN BURROUGHS The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active bus...
JOHN BURROUGHS All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this e...
JOHN BURROUGHS I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordswort...
JOHN BURROUGHS Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among Englis...
JOHN BURROUGHS More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value ...
JOHN BURROUGHS The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of t...
JOHN BURROUGHS Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephon...
JOHN BURROUGHS When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again d...
JOHN BURROUGHS Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the act...
JOHN BURROUGHS The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and inv...
JOHN BURROUGHS It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative
JOHN BURROUGHS You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.
JOHN BURROUGHS I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just h...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and...
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Bec...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one si...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is ...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know th...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chai...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills a...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rej...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's ...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christia...
JEFF BURROUGHS I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many d...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS [Outside in the rain, paying punters appeared evenly divided between those there to see the bands an...
DAVID BURROUGHS The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing o...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS And by lucky coincidence, here comes a green Mazda pickup with a brown stripe.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, ...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS If we happened to be in rehearsal downstairs in my room and a neighbor padded across the lawn to rap...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS From Queen Elizabeth, who had her own box, to the street cleaners.
LYNNE BURROUGHS I think basically it's just bad luck.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS If it is the same guy, he's been pretty busy.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS We got a name and tracked him down to the Best Value Inn in Renton.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS They're not sure of anything yet.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS About the same time, the people in the pickup truck realized they were being followed and it turned ...
ROBBIE BURROUGHS He gave up about five minutes later.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS About everyone on staff helps out for trivia.
KITT BURROUGHS Unconditional love. That's what this is. I love him, as is, fully. I've had to stop arm wrestling wi...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and l...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS It has been proven that preserving these properties increases their value.
BEN BURROUGHS By preserving these neighborhoods, we are creating a draw for tourists and that translates into an e...
BEN BURROUGHS We are talking about something that cannot be bought. It's our heritage, and it needs to be preserve...
BEN BURROUGHS You deserve to need me, not to have me.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Augusten very distant tonight. Probably because of my games.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Suddenly, this word fills me with a sense of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sad...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS As in a tree, there is more sap in an Arm of the tree, than in a little sprig; but the sprig hath th...
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I'm not anxious, I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horrib...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Jesus came to give us life. We don't have to hang on a cross like he did. For him, it was a sacrific...
DILLON BURROUGHS Use the talents you’ve developed to create goodwill, to ease the burdens of those who are not as f...
LAURA BURROUGHS I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren’t alo...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'ga...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emot...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS His toes wriggle in his socks and my first thought is, I want to snip them off with hedge trimmers. ...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Never work with children, puppies or bulimics
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Nothing surprises me now," I tell him. I am stoic. I am Joan of Arc, with liver damage and an unused...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Freshly brainwashed from rehab, I carry the bottle into the bathroom. I hold it up to the light. See...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS If you're gay and live in New York and don't go to gym, eventually they come for you.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand ...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS After I cut off his penis, I sautéed it in rosemary butter and ate it"
"But did you go to a me...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS What I really want is to sit next to someone on an L.L. bean blanket on the beach in the fall and dr...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS There's not enough of me left over.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS