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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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  Nature, Inspiration, Artist

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.5, Syracuse University Press

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• The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

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  Men, Broken, Miracle

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• I still find each day too short.

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  Thinking Of You, Retirement, Short Life

  John Burroughs (1924). “Summit of the years”

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• Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

  John Burroughs

  Science, Joy, Curiosity

  "What Liberals Believe: Thousands of Quotes on Why America Needs to Be Rescued from Greedy Corporations, Homophobes, Racists, Imperialists, Xenophobes, and Religious Extremists". Book by William Martin, William Patrick Martin (p. 492), 2008.

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• In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled.

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  Weather, Snow, Woods

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.56

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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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  Time, Fate, Hands

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs: The light of day. 12. Literary values and other papers”

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• Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night.

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  Heart, Night, Self

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.222, Syracuse University Press

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• We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.

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  Wind, Storm, Demon

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Indoor studies”

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• The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all.

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  Cheer, Color, Bird

  John Burroughs (1976). “The birds of John Burroughs: keeping a sharp lookout”

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• I am in love with this world. It has been my home. It has been my point of outlook into the universe. I have never bruised myself against it nor tried to use it ignobly.

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  Home, Use, World

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• The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.

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  God, Religion, Monsters

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• Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all.

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  Nature, Sea, Rivers

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• I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

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  Weather, Anxiety, Born

  John Burroughs (2006). “Locusts and Wild Honey”, p.43, Wildside Press LLC

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• How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us - are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit; and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.

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  Flower, Heart, Men

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• The fuel in the earth will be exhausted in a thousand or more years, and its mineral wealth, but man will find substitutes for these in the winds, the waves, the sun's heat, and so forth.

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  Men, Years, Wind

  John Burroughs (2008). “Under the Apple-Trees”, p.308, Wildside Press LLC

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• When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast.

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  Blue, Color, Sky

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.49, Syracuse University Press

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• The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees and the shadows. All his approaches are gentle and indirect. He times himself to the meandering, soliloquizing stream; he addresses himself to it as a lover to his mistress; he woos it and stays with it till he knows its hidden secrets. Where it deepens his purpose deepens; where it is shallow he is indifferent. He knows how to interpret its every glance and dimple; its beauty haunts him for days.

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  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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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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  Nature, Order, Secret

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.15, Syracuse University Press

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• [Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of wild life. He probably knew tenfold more natural history than all the presidents who had preceded him, and, I think one is safe in saying, more human history also.

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  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

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• Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.

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  Spring, Vision, Lamps

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• The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd say if it is just us, an awful lot of space is going to waste. The earth is not alone, it is not like a single apple on a tree; there are many apples on the tree, and there are many trees in the orchard.

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  Hate, Moon, Apples

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• Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.

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  Yield, Facts, Significant

  John Burroughs (1913). “The summit of the years”

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• I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows.... glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in its foliage, warmth in its fibers, and health in it the year round.

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  Summer, Home, Autumn

  "Under the Maples - The Last Portrait of John Burroughs".

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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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  Fun, Work, Blessed

  John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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• The only countries that are outside of [ Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] are Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea withdrew in the last few years.

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  Country, Israel, Korea

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