John Burroughs - Accepting the universe (1913)

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Man's craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment.... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.

John Burroughs
Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

John Burroughs
Science kills credulity and superstition, but to the well-balanced mind it enhances the feeling of wonder, of veneration, and of kinship which we feel in the presence of the miraculous universe.

John Burroughs
The truths of naturalism do not satisfy the moral and religious nature.

John Burroughs
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.

John Burroughs
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night.

John Burroughs
In us or through us the Primal Mind will have contemplated and enjoyed its own works and will continue to do so as long as human life endures on this planet.

John Burroughs