Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!
John BurroughsTravel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
John BurroughsThe pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.
John BurroughsThe court was unable to rule on all circumstances in which nuclear weapons might be used, and it said in view of the problems, the risks posed by nuclear weapons, and in view of the lack of certainty of the law in all circumstances, the best course is fulfilling the obligation of good faith negotiations of nuclear disarmament contained in the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
John BurroughsEvery walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. There are no heretics in Nature's church; all are believers, all are communicants. The beauty of natural religion is that you have it all the time; you do not have to seek it afar off in myths and legends, in catacombs, in garbled texts, in miracles of dead saints or wine-bibbing friars. It is of today; it is now and here; it is everywhere.
John Burroughs