John Burroughs Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• 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

  John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs. [”

• 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

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.239, Syracuse University Press

• A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Men, Justice

  John Burroughs (2001). “Literary Values and Other Papers”, p.55, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Stars, Opportunity

  John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”

• If you think you can do it, you can.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Sports, Thinking

• One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand-to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Nature, Lying

  John Burroughs (1924). “Complete writings of John Burroughs”

• Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Doe, Sacred

  John Burroughs (1902). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Literary values and other papers”

• 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

  Life, Nature, Rain

  John Burroughs (1924). “Summit of the years”

• To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

• The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Spiritual, Thinking

  JOHN BURROUGHS (1917). “STUDIES IN NATURE AND LITERATURE”

• Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

  John Burroughs

  Life, War, Struggle

  John Burroughs (1913). “The summit of the years”

• Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Live Life, Love Is

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.4, Syracuse University Press

• I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality of the Nature Providence is best; that we are made strong by what we overcome; that man is man because he is as free to do evil as to do good; that life is as free to develop hostile forms as to develop friendly; that power waits upon him who earns it; that disease, wars, the unloosened, devastating elemental forces have each and all played their part in developing and hardening man and giving him the heroic fiber.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Strong, War

  John Burroughs (1924). “Accepting the universe”

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