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 deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
John BurroughsThe fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth.
John BurroughsHow much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.
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