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John Burroughs Quotes


An American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement.
John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 – March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Thoreau of that especially American literary genre, the nature essay. By the turn of the century he had become a virtual cultural institution in his own right: the Grand Old Man of Nature at a time when the American romance with the idea of nature, and the American conservation movement, had come fully into their own. His extraordinary popularity and popular visibility were sustained by a prolific stream of essay collections, beginning with Wake-Robin in 1871.

Here are some famous quotes by John Burroughs.   

Serene I fold my hands and wait.

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I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

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To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

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

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How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.

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Few persons realize how much of their happiness such as it is is dependent upon their work.

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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.

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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.

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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.