A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

John Burroughs (1837 CE-1821 CE), John Burroughs was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States. In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughs' special identity was less that of a scientific naturalist than that of "a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world.".