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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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To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures to the poet she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy.
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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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Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
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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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The life of nature we must meet halfway it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background.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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Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten!
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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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O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best.
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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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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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How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!
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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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Science makes no claim to infallibility it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.
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Without death and decay, how could life go on?
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One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
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We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.
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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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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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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.
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