"Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world."
- John Burroughs
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
"The secret of happiness is something to do"
"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’."
"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind..."
"The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an end. We must adjust our notions to the discovery that things are not shaped to him, bu..."
"I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey."
"I am in love with this world... I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvest, I have waited upon its seasons, and always have I reaped what I have sown. I have climbed its mountains, roamed its..."
"Nature we have always with us, an in exhaustible store-house of that which moves the heart, appeals to the mind and fires the imagination -- health to the body, a stimulus to the intellect, and joy to..."