John Burroughs Quotes


I do not think I exaggerate the importance or the charms of pedestrianism, or our need as a people to cultivate the art. I think it would tend to soften the national manners, to teach us the meaning of leisure, to acquaint us with the charms of the open air, to strengthen and foster the tie between the race and the land. No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.


Citations

Burroughs, John. Winter Sunshine. Hurd and Houghton, 1875, p. 30.

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John Burroughs
John Burroughs
  • Born: April 3, 1837
  • Died: March 29, 1921
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer, Naturalist

John Burroughs was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871.