The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. – John Burroughs
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. – John Burroughs

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. – John Burroughs
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. – John Burroughs
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
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
The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn. I started going for long lone country walks among the spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end, giving myself up to the earth-scents and the sky-winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul. – Monica Baldwin, I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and Impressions After Twenty-Eig