I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. – John Burroughs
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. – John Burroughs
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. – John Burroughs
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. – John Burroughs
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, – to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. – John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones