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In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

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
May
Way
Behold
Eternal
Ways
Order
Nature

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For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!
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I still find each day too short.
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How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!
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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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The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.
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We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking.
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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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The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.
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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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One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.
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The International Court of Justice (a.k.a. World Court) is the judicial branch of the United Nations and in the early 1990's a campaign started and it was supported by civil society non-governmental groups around the world.
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Natural history is a matter of observation it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels and flowers are not always in season, but philosophy we have always with us. It is a crop which we can grow and reap at all times and in all places and it has its own value and brings its own satisfaction.
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The poor old earth which has mothered us and nursed us we treat with scant respect. Our awe and veneration we reserve for the worlds we know not of. Our senses sell us out. The mud on our shoes disenchants us.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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