The 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John BurroughsThe life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it is an order the secrets of which are well guarded.
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 BurroughsCertainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the armed services that are involved with nuclear weapons deployment, especially the naval submarine operations and also the air force's land-based ICBM operations. So they have a big lobby in Washington.
John Burroughs