Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all.
John BurroughsWhat a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.
John BurroughsWhen I look up into the starry heavens at night and reflect upon what it is I really see there, I am constrained to say, ยดthere is no godยด.
John BurroughsBasically [United States and France] said "We will use nuclear weapons whenever it suits our purposes to do so." So this expansion of doctrines regarding possible use of nuclear weapons makes them more, you know, sort of, salient and important and so it's increasing the perceived political value of nuclear weapons and therefore causing or contributing to possible proliferation.
John Burroughs