If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.
John BurroughsThen, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!
John BurroughsI go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
John BurroughsI want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the constellations Orion, Cassiopeiaโs Chair, the Big Dipper; the only thing real in them is the stars, and the only thing real in the creeds is the soulโs aspiration toward the Infinite.
John Burroughs