John Burroughs - Love Quotes

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Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.

John Burroughs

I am in love with this world... I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.

John Burroughs

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

Man lives in his emotions, his hopes and fears, his loves and sympathies, his predilections and his affinities, more than in his reason.

John Burroughs

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.

John Burroughs

The love of nature is different from the love of science, though the two may go together.

John Burroughs