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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.

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
May
Value
Take
Walk
Every
Journey
Walks
Noting
Pleasure
Doubled
Values
Impressions
Upon
Carefully
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Impression

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