John Burroughs Quotes

In fact, the United States is building up its trident nuclear sub fleet in the Pacific, based at Bangor, Washington to build up its capabilities to wage nuclear war.

Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it's very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige.

There is an international treaty framework for this. It's the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Most countries in the world are members of the treaty.

Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

The secret of happiness is something to do

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.

You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.

The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind.

How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.

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

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.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

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.

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.

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.

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

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.