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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

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
Inspiration
Somebody
Wanted
Nobody

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The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
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Love is the measure of life only so far as we love do we really live.
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Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.
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I still find each day too short.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Without death and decay, how could life go on?
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.
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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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You cannot cause disproportionate damage to the environment you cannot harm neutral states. The court said that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is generally contrary to the international law of armed conflict.
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The place to observe nature is where you are.
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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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My group, the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, was one of the principle organizers. So, there was this campaign to support the United Nations General Assembly in asking the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion on the legality of threat or use of nuclear weapons.
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I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture.
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best.
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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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