John BurroughsThinkers

Culture is the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

Failure is something any man odes many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

The Flower remains a stranger if its name is unknown, as the name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp.

The Fourth of July is a day on which orators and artillerymen both shoot blank cartridges

Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

Nature 1s 2lan is so immense that she has no plan other than to go on and on forever, knowing no size, no distance, no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.

October is a feast to the eye as the woods and groves give back the light they have been absorbing from the sun all summer.

The Onion is a vegetable that acts tough, but you take all the conceit out of it when you cook it

Paul Gauguin is a Parisian degenerate; the worst degenerate of all, a refined, perfumed degenerate.

Paul Gauguin is an artist in whose figures are mostly distorted, and all of them have a smutty look, as if they had been rubbed with lampblack or coal dust.

Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent her fragrant garments, Her foot is on the stair.