John Burroughs Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

  John Burroughs

  Years, Civilization, Religion

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

• I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

  John Burroughs

  Work, Hands, Secret

• Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour of the day. And as the hermit's evening hymn goes up from the deep solitude below me, I experience that serene exaltation of sentiment of which music, literature, and religion are but the faint types and symbols.

  John Burroughs

  Twilight, Hymns, Solitude

  John Burroughs (2012). “In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs”, p.100, tredition

• The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

  John Burroughs

  Men, Broken, Miracle

• Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.

  John Burroughs

  Genius, Literature, Investment

  "Writings: Indoor studies".

• I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

  John Burroughs

  Museums, Funeral, Feelings

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Indoor studies”

• If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

  John Burroughs

  Literature, Accepting, Guides

  John Burroughs (1913). “Writings”

• Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

  John Burroughs

  Men, Nails, Literature

• One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

  John Burroughs

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Battle

• The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Winter, June

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.53

• Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of science has all the science before him to go upon, to set himself up in business with. What an enormous sum Darwin availed himself of and reinvested! Not so in literature; to every poet, to every artist, it is still the first day of creation, so far as the essentials of his task are concerned. Literature is not so much a fund to be reinvested as it is a crop to be ever new-grown.

  John Burroughs

  Art, Science, Men

  John Burroughs (1905). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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