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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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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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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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The place to observe nature is where you are.
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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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We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.
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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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Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.
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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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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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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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O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best.
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Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power.
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The budget for nuclear forces in the United States is on the order of $25 billion or so. That includes warheads, delivery systems, command and control does not include environmental clean-up, which is another maybe $10 billion or so. So that's about 5% of the U.S. military budget.
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The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly.
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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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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
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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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