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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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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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We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.
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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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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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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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The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United Nations charter when it invaded Iraq in 2003. This is not wise policy.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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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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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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I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my goings and comings.
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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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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
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Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.
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Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.
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The place to observe nature is where you are.
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