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Danh ngôn của John Burroughs (Sứ mệnh: 5)

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.
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The secret of happiness is something to do.
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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.
If you think you can do it, you can.
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.