John Burroughs Quotes

In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.

John Burroughs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 3, 1837 - March 29, 1921

Topics

WinterStarsArtSimplicityMoon

If I can get a page out in a day, I am celebrating.

Jesmyn Ward

DayI AmI CanPageOutGet

The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's something that I think over time there's an opportunity for us and we'll work on that in a progressive way.

Jenny Shipley

WorkOpportunityTimeThinkWay

Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

Max Schmeling

FightWarHappyLooking BackVictory

My dad's a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I'd end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

Meghan Markle

BusinessTimeGrowing UpEndGrowing

I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, 'Why should somebody be able to pollute the air, which belongs to all of us, or destroy a river or a waterway, which is supposed to belong to the whole community?'

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

CommunityRiverThoughtPollution

I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.

Stephen Dunn

ParentsMeThinkThoughtDieEarly

I always enjoyed being in front of the camera.

Sridevi

CameraAlwaysBeingEnjoyedFront

It's often said that you're the product of the five people you spend the most time with. If you allow even one of those five people to be toxic, you'll soon find out how capable he or she is of holding you back.

Travis Bradberry

TimePeopleYouBackFindSaid

I loved Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's 'Inside No 9.' The way that they constrained each episode to a single location, then tasked themselves with including completely new characters every week, within a single half-hour.

Tom Riley

LovedWeekNewWayInsideWithin

The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.

Russ Carnahan

TransportationCountryImportantAct

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Mikhail Bakunin

GodHumanityLibertyMatterChildish

I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.

Judge Mills Lane

PeopleThinkBadBornKnowWhy

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by John Burroughs