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The place to observe nature is where you are.

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
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Observe

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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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The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
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The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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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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Temperament lies behind mood behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture and finally the power of climate and environment and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.
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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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