A man can fail many times, but he isnt a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. – John Burroughs
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. – John Burroughs
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. – 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