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The life of nature we must meet halfway it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated it is an order the secrets of which are well guarded.
John Burroughs
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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
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Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world.
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One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.
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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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We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.
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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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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly.
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Science makes no claim to infallibility it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.
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