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

— 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

A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.

— John Burroughs

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

— John Burroughs

Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have no self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being, but that looks abroad upon things.

— John Burroughs

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

— John Burroughs

England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.

— John Burroughs

Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.

— John Burroughs

Few persons realize how much of their happiness such as it is is dependent upon their work.

— John Burroughs

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.

— John Burroughs