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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
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Delaware County
New York
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Curiosity
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the constellations Orion, Cassiopeia’s Chair, the Big Dipper the only thing real in them is the stars, and the only thing real in the creeds is the soul’s aspiration toward the Infinite.
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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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Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is of the fleas. Her waves will drown him, her fire burn him, and her earth devour him, her storms and lightning smite him, as if he were only a dog.
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The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United Nations charter when it invaded Iraq in 2003. This is not wise policy.
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The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook.
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In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The bird is generally a mere disembodied voice a rumor in the air for two or three days before it takes visible shape before you.
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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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A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
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One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
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The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.
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One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.
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The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.
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