"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order." ― John Burroughs Topic(s): Nature Tags: nature More From John Burroughs "Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man." "Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years." "For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service." More In Nature "The bluebird carries the sky on his back."― Henry David Thoreau "Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry."― Richard P. Feynman "It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature."― Albert Einstein