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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
Eternal
Ways
Order
Nature
May
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Behold

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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 is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
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Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.
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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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Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are busy and not left to feed upon themselves. Blessed is the person who has some congenial work, some occupation in which to place one's heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces that are in him or her.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United Nations charter when it invaded Iraq in 2003. This is not wise policy.
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Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
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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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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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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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One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.
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The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.
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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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Temperament lies behind mood behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture and finally the power of climate and environment and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
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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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