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
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. – John Burroughs
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but 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