John Burroughs - Place Quotes

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Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

John Burroughs

Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels and flowers are not always in season, but philosophy we have always with us. It is a crop which we can grow and reap at all times and in all places and it has its own value and brings its own satisfaction.

John Burroughs

One may return to the place of his birth.
He cannot go back to his youth.

John Burroughs

The collisions and disruptions that take place in the vast depths of sidereal space show that chance takes a hand in the game even there, though the universal law of gravitation is not annulled.

John Burroughs

Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!

John Burroughs

There are few places on the farm where there is so much live natural history to be gathered as in the orchard. All the wild creatures seem to feel the friendly and congenial atmosphere of the orchard.

John Burroughs