John Burroughs Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.

  John Burroughs

  Winter, Fire, Air

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.14

• I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the constellations Orion, Cassiopeia’s Chair, the Big Dipper; the only thing real in them is the stars, and the only thing real in the creeds is the soul’s aspiration toward the Infinite.

  John Burroughs

  Stars, Real, Men

  John Burroughs (1924). “Accepting the universe”

• Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night.

  John Burroughs

  Heart, Night, Self

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.222, Syracuse University Press

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