Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. – John Burroughs
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. – John Burroughs
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. – John Burroughs
I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows…. glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in its foliage, warmth in its fibers, and health in it the year round. – John Burroughs