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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

John Burroughs

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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
Essayist
Naturalist
Writer
Delaware County
New York
Keen
Curiosity
Joy
Religion
Universe
Science

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We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
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We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.
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There are nine countries in the world that have nuclear weapons. There are about 27,000 nuclear weapons total on the planet. The countries that have nuclear weapons deploy them ready for use and have doctrines saying that they would use them in certain circumstances.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.
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The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.
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The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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The International Court of Justice (a.k.a. World Court) is the judicial branch of the United Nations and in the early 1990's a campaign started and it was supported by civil society non-governmental groups around the world.
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The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.
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[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of wild life. He probably knew tenfold more natural history than all the presidents who had preceded him, and, I think one is safe in saying, more human history also.
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How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!
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