Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
John BurroughsMan is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
John BurroughsThe gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.
John BurroughsScience sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into the physical and mechanical elements, without getting any nearer the reason of its going by, or the point of its departure or destination.
John Burroughs