Creative Quotations from John Burroughs (1837-1921)

Creative Quotations from . . .

John Burroughs
(1837-1921) born on Apr 03

US "author, naturalist". "He was a popular writer who, like Thoreau, celebrated nature in "Wake Robin," 1871 and "Birds and Poets," 1877."

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday."

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

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

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

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
R:	""The Heart of Burroughs Journals.""
A:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N:	"In "Instant Quotation Dictionary," by Donald O. Bolander, 1979."
K:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."