There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
More Quotes from John Burroughs:
I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil that the impartiality of the Nature Providence is best that we are made strong by what we overcome that man is man because he is as free to do evil as to do good that life is as free to develop hostile forms as to develop friendly that power waits upon him who earns it that disease, wars, the unloosened, devastating elemental forces have each and all played their part in developing and hardening man and giving him the heroic fiber.John Burroughs
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
John Burroughs
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is look under foot. You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
John Burroughs
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
John Burroughs
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs
I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.
John Burroughs
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