Share & Save
Meaning
Not documented yet.
When It Was Said
Not documented yet.
Who It Was Said To
Not documented yet.
Historical Context
Not documented yet.
Source
Not documented yet.
Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
Did They Really Say It?
Not documented yet.
Did You Know?
Not documented yet.
About John Burroughs
American naturalist and nature essayist
John Burroughs was an American naturalist and nature essayist. He was active in the conservation movement in the United States and is remembered for writing about the natural world. His first essay collection, Wake-Robin, appeared in 1871. Burroughs’s work helped shape American nature writing, with essays that reflect close attention to landscapes, plants, and wildlife.
More from John Burroughs (137 quotes) →Keep reading John Burroughs
- “My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.”John Burroughs
- “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the worl…”John Burroughs
- “There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.”John Burroughs
- “Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, becaus…”John Burroughs
More Solitude quotes
Explore The Soul
- “Songs of myselfI am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me a…”Walt Whitman
- “Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.”John Buchan
- “The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolen…”Albert Camus
READ THE SOURCE
Books by John Burroughs
Winter Sunshine
1895