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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
Religion
Universe
Science
Keen
Curiosity
Joy

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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
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We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.
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Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.
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In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.
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Love is the measure of life only so far as we love do we really live.
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The life of nature we must meet halfway it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated it is an order the secrets of which are well guarded.
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For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!
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Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
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