He was a famous nature writer that earned a place in the Ecology Hall of Fame with a million and a half copies of his twenty three volumes of essays and books. His writings about nature talked about his experiences outdoors and urged others to experience and contemplate nature.

Burroughs was a popular writer because readers appreciated the way of life he wrote about, simple values, simple means, and simple ends.

Growing up on a farm in the Catskill Mountains, Burroughs absorbed much of the nature and country life that would fill his essays in later life.

For several years before and after 1920, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs participated in a series of motor camping caravans, which have been described as the first notable linking of the automobile with outdoor recreation.

It is thought that these visits helped bring attention to the special value of the hemlock forest and the waterfalls along the Yough, and probably helped the owner Henry Krug decide to give the land to the State.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

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

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

Leap, and the net will appear.

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth.

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

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

A small river or stream flowing by one's door has many attractions over a large body of water like the Hudson. One can make a companion of it; he can walk with it and sit with it, or lounge on its banks, and feel that it is all his own. It becomes something private and special to him. You cannot have the same kind of attachment and sympathy with a great river; it does not flow through your affections like a lesser stream.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking.

I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows. It was paramount in the woods of the old home farm where I grew up. It looks and smells like home. When I bring in a maple stick to put on my fire, I feel like caressing it a little. Its fiber is as white as a lily, and nearly as sweet-scented. It is such a tractable, satisfactory wood to handle ___ a clean, docile, wholesome tree; burning without snapping or sputtering, easily worked up into stovewood, fine of grain, hard of texture, stately as a forest tree, comely and clean as a shade tree, glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in its foliage, warmth in its fibers, and health in it the year round.