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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.
John Burroughs
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John Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1837
Born: April 3
Died: 1921
Died: March 29
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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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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.
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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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Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.
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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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The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.
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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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The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.
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