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A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.
John Burroughs
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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
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Delaware County
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Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is of the fleas. Her waves will drown him, her fire burn him, and her earth devour him, her storms and lightning smite him, as if he were only a dog.
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[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.
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There are nine countries in the world that have nuclear weapons. There are about 27,000 nuclear weapons total on the planet. The countries that have nuclear weapons deploy them ready for use and have doctrines saying that they would use them in certain circumstances.
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One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.
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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.
John Burroughs
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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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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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
John Burroughs
How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!
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We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.
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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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The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.
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....success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it.
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The five original nuclear weapon states I mentioned - U.S., Britain, France, China, and Russia - under the NPT have committed to the achievement of the elimination of their nuclear arsenals through good faith negotiations of nuclear disarmament - that's Article Six of the treaty.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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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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The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
John Burroughs
The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.
John Burroughs
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
John Burroughs
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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