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The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

John Burroughs

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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
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One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Science makes no claim to infallibility it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.
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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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The budget for nuclear forces in the United States is on the order of $25 billion or so. That includes warheads, delivery systems, command and control does not include environmental clean-up, which is another maybe $10 billion or so. So that's about 5% of the U.S. military budget.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.
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You cannot cause disproportionate damage to the environment you cannot harm neutral states. The court said that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is generally contrary to the international law of armed conflict.
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To find the universal elements enough to find the air and the water exhilarating to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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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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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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Love is the measure of life only so far as we love do we really live.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The bird is generally a mere disembodied voice a rumor in the air for two or three days before it takes visible shape before you.
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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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In 2002 the [George] Bush administration effectively put an end to negotiations of an agreement which would have established inspection procedures to ensure or to monitor compliance with the existing legal ban on biological weapons.
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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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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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