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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

John Burroughs

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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
Essayist
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Delaware County
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Christianity
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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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[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.
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....success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it.
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The budget for nuclear forces in the United States is on the order of $25 billion or so. That includes warheads, delivery systems, command and control does not include environmental clean-up, which is another maybe $10 billion or so. So that's about 5% of the U.S. military budget.
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All sounds are sharper in winter the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North Mountain. In summer it is a sort of complacent purr, as the breezes stroke down its sides but in winter always the same low, sullen growl.
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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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Without death and decay, how could life go on?
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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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Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.
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How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.
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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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Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.
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