A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. – John Burroughs
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. – John Burroughs
When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. – John Burroughs
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. – John Burroughs