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One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.
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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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 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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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.
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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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Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.
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The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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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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The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.
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The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.
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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.
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What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.
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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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[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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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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