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The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.
John Burroughs
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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
Essayist
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Delaware County
New York
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The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!
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One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all.
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To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures to the poet she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy.
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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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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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Love is the measure of life only so far as we love do we really live.
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There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all people and what a wretched world it would be.
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Almost all of the governments have agreed that they will not acquire nuclear weapons and that they will allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor their commercial and research nuclear power operations to ensure that nuclear materials - highly enriched uranium and plutonium - are not diverted to use in weapons.
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Without death and decay, how could life go on?
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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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In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.
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