Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- John Burroughs, (Apr 3 1837-1921), US author, naturalist; He was a popular writer who, like Thoreau, celebrated nature in Wake Robin, 1871 and Birds and Poets, 1877.