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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.

John Burroughs

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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
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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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Almost all of the governments have agreed that they will not acquire nuclear weapons and that they will allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor their commercial and research nuclear power operations to ensure that nuclear materials - highly enriched uranium and plutonium - are not diverted to use in weapons.
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I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the constellations Orion, Cassiopeia’s Chair, the Big Dipper the only thing real in them is the stars, and the only thing real in the creeds is the soul’s aspiration toward the Infinite.
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Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power.
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For two summers not a blue wing, not a blue warble. I seemed to miss something kindred and precious from my environment--the visible embodiment of the tender sky and wistful soil. What a loss, I said, to coming generations of dwellers in the country--no bluebird in spring!
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.
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I still find each day too short.
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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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....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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How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!
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In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.
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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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One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.
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The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.
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The International Court of Justice (a.k.a. World Court) is the judicial branch of the United Nations and in the early 1990's a campaign started and it was supported by civil society non-governmental groups around the world.
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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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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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