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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.

John Burroughs

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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.
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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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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.
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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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To find the universal elements enough to find the air and the water exhilarating to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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Science makes no claim to infallibility it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.
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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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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the armed services that are involved with nuclear weapons deployment, especially the naval submarine operations and also the air force's land-based ICBM operations. So they have a big lobby in Washington.
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