John Burroughs Quotes & Sayings

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”

“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

“If you think you can do it, you can.”

“Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.”

“A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.”

“Leap, and the net will appear.”

“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.”