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.
John Burroughs

If you think you can do it, you can.
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

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

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
John Burroughs

Leap, and the net will appear.
John Burroughs

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

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.
John Burroughs