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John Burroughs Quotes

American - Author | April 3, 1837 - March 29, 1921

Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not 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.

Alone Intelligence Man Safety Birds

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

Motto Voice Try Never Always Inward

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

Religion Mind Heaven Place Kingdom

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

Imagination Treat Facts Imagine Your

I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.

Lake Country Kind See Would Could

To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.

Soul Body Consciousness Origin

We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.

Money Beginning Values Real See

I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.

Life Live I Am Efficiency 100 Years

The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.

Growth Great Bird Wise Free Color

As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.

Nature Loved Rocks More Phases Than

The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady's-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell. On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.

Plants Birds Landscape You Look

Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.

Home Man Animals Special Him Depend

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