I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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 BurroughsOne summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite me, and not more than three or four yards distant, suddenly fell down. Amid the general stillness and immobility about me the effect was quite startling. ... It was the sudden summing up of half a century or more of atomic changes in the material of the wall. A grain or two of sand yielded to the pressure of long years, and gravity did the rest.
John Burroughs