John Burroughs

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

John Burroughs

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

John Burroughs

We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.

John Burroughs

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.

John Burroughs

A life is made strong by the obstacles it overcomes.

John Burroughs

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

John Burroughs

All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better.

John Burroughs

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

John Burroughs

How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

John Burroughs

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