John Burroughs Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• 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

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.49, Syracuse University Press

• Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. There are no heretics in Nature's church; all are believers, all are communicants. The beauty of natural religion is that you have it all the time; you do not have to seek it afar off in myths and legends, in catacombs, in garbled texts, in miracles of dead saints or wine-bibbing friars. It is of today; it is now and here; it is everywhere.

  John Burroughs

  Mother, Religious, Heart

  Bertrand Russell, John Burroughs, Herbert Faulkner West (1959). “Two modern essays on religion: A free man's worship”

• The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd say if it is just us, an awful lot of space is going to waste. The earth is not alone, it is not like a single apple on a tree; there are many apples on the tree, and there are many trees in the orchard.

  John Burroughs

  Hate, Moon, Apples

• There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

  John Burroughs

  Men, Advice, Earth

• The poor old earth which has mothered us and nursed us we treat with scant respect. Our awe and veneration we reserve for the worlds we know not of. Our senses sell us out. The mud on our shoes disenchants us.

  John Burroughs

  Shoes, Environmental, Mud

  John Burroughs (1921). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

• The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth.

  John Burroughs

  Men, Years, Wind

  John Burroughs (2008). “Under the Apple-Trees”, p.308, Wildside Press LLC

• Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.

  John Burroughs

  Mother, Religious, Nature

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.223, Syracuse University Press

• Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is of the fleas. Her waves will drown him, her fire burn him, and her earth devour him, her storms and lightning smite him, as if he were only a dog.

  John Burroughs

  Dog, Nature, Men

• Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

  John Burroughs

  Water, Earth, Holy

  John Burroughs (1921). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

• To see Earth fully we already need to love it

  John Burroughs

  Needs, Earth

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