Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
John BurroughsIn the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.
John BurroughsNature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.
John BurroughsThe fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees and the shadows. All his approaches are gentle and indirect. He times himself to the meandering, soliloquizing stream; he addresses himself to it as a lover to his mistress; he woos it and stays with it till he knows its hidden secrets. Where it deepens his purpose deepens; where it is shallow he is indifferent. He knows how to interpret its every glance and dimple; its beauty haunts him for days.
John Burroughs