Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
John BurroughsNature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.
John BurroughsI want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the constellations Orion, Cassiopeia’s Chair, the Big Dipper; the only thing real in them is the stars, and the only thing real in the creeds is the soul’s aspiration toward the Infinite.
John Burroughs