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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.

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
Nature
Hints
Truth
Crude
Thing
Suggests
Much
Truths
Goes
Seen
Half
Translated
Facts
Absorbed

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In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.
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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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The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
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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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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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The place to observe nature is where you are.
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The life of nature we must meet halfway it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background.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.
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One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.
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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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We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.
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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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There is an international treaty framework for this. It's the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Most countries in the world are members of the treaty.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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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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Without death and decay, how could life go on?
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Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power.
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Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the armed services that are involved with nuclear weapons deployment, especially the naval submarine operations and also the air force's land-based ICBM operations. So they have a big lobby in Washington.
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Science makes no claim to infallibility it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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