Quote by John Burroughs : “The type of mind of Wh”

The type of mind of Whitman’s, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent thinking and knowing faculty, but always as a personality, always as a complete human entity, never can expound itself, because its operations are synthetic and not analytic; its mainspring is love and not mere knowledge.

Quote by John Burroughs : “Leap and the net will”

Leap, and the net will appear. – John Burroughs

Quote by John Burroughs : “A somebody was once a”

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did. – John Burroughs

Quote by John Burroughs : “The universe is so unhuman”

The universe is so unhuman, that is, it goes its way with so little thought of man. He is but an incident, not an end. We must adjust our notions to the discovery that things are not shaped to him, but that he is shaped to them. The air was not made for his lungs, […]

Quote by John Burroughs : “If you think you can”

If you think you can do it, you can. – John Burroughs