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.

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

If you think you can do it, you can.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

Leap, and the net will appear.