John Burroughs Quotes About Mountain

Quotes about: Mountain

• I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Nature, Rain

  John Burroughs (1924). “Summit of the years”

• We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.

  John Burroughs

  Mountain Peaks, Mountain, Walks

  John Burroughs (2001). “Literary Values and Other Papers”, p.273, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer it is a sort of complacent purr, as the breezes stroke down its sides; but in winter always the same low, sullen growl.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Winter, Night

  John Burroughs (2012). “In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs”, p.17, tredition

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