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Love is the measure of life only so far as we love do we really live.

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
Life
Measure
Live
Really
Love

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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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One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.
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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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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 go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
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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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One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.
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I am not going to advocate ... the abandoning of the improved modes of travel but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who goes afoot, while all the dark spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly.
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The thing that I focus on because I don't think it gets enough attention is that among the world's major powers, there is still a nuclear balance of terror - I'm talking about between the United States and Russia, the United States and China.
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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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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 God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.
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We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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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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You cannot use [nuclear weapons] to target civilians you cannot use them against military targets if they have indiscriminate effects on civilians in addition to the attack on the military target.
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