Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!
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 most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the universe at your very door. All that I ever had, and still have, may be yours by stretching forth your hand and taking it.
John BurroughsThe life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background.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 Burroughs