John Burroughs Quote

The first step which a man or a people takes toward a culture is a love of the artificial, as such, while the last and crowning step is a love of the natural and the simple.


The Heart of Burroughs's Journals, April 5, 1867 (p. 49), Houghton Mifflin Co. 1928


The first step which a man or a people takes toward a culture is a love of the artificial, as such, while the last and crowning step is a love of the ...

The first step which a man or a people takes toward a culture is a love of the artificial, as such, while the last and crowning step is a love of the ...

The first step which a man or a people takes toward a culture is a love of the artificial, as such, while the last and crowning step is a love of the ...

The first step which a man or a people takes toward a culture is a love of the artificial, as such, while the last and crowning step is a love of the ...