John Burroughs Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

  John Burroughs

  Flower, Book, Honey

  "Summit of the years".

• How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us - are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit; and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.

  John Burroughs

  Flower, Heart, Men

• Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels and flowers are not always in season, but philosophy we have always with us. It is a crop which we can grow and reap at all times and in all places and it has its own value and brings its own satisfaction.

  John Burroughs

  Philosophy, Flower, Science

  John Burroughs (2008). “Under the Apple-Trees”, p.5, Wildside Press LLC

• The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook.

  John Burroughs

  Sweet, Flower, Ambition

  John Burroughs (2008). “Pepacton”, p.58, Wildside Press LLC

• The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

  John Burroughs

  Nature, Flower, Smell

  John Burroughs (2008). “Pepacton”, p.211, Wildside Press LLC

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