A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John BurroughsOne resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: โTo rise above little thingsโ.
John BurroughsWhat a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.
John BurroughsThe floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.
John BurroughsThere tends to be this comfortable assumption that nuclear weapons won't be used, but I don't think that's warranted, and I think we should seize the opportunity of this time of stability and cooperation and move towards global elimination of nuclear weapons as indeed people like Henry Kissinger, and William Perry, former Secretary of Defense under Clinton, and Sam Nunn, former Senator, and George Schultz, former Undersecretary of State for Ronald Reagan. All of them recently called for achievement of a nuclear weapon-free world.
John Burroughs