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• I am not going to advocate ... the abandoning of the improved modes of travel; but I am going to brag as lustily as I can on behalf of the pedestrian, and show how all the shining angels second and accompany the man who goes afoot, while all the dark spirits are ever looking out for a chance to ride.

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  Angel, Dark, Men

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.34

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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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  Atheist, Men, World

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs. [”

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• Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

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  Life, War, Struggle

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

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• Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians.

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  Claims, Made, Theologian

  John Burroughs (1900). “Writings: The light of day”

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• The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.

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  Art, Nature, Concealment

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.8, Syracuse University Press

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• The thing that I focus on because I don't think it gets enough attention is that among the world's major powers, there is still a nuclear balance of terror - I'm talking about between the United States and Russia, the United States and China.

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  Thinking, Russia, Talking

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• There tends to be this comfortable assumption that nuclear weapons won't be used, but I don't think that's warranted, and I think we should seize the opportunity of this time of stability and cooperation and move towards global elimination of nuclear weapons as indeed people like Henry Kissinger, and William Perry, former Secretary of Defense under Clinton, and Sam Nunn, former Senator, and George Schultz, former Undersecretary of State for Ronald Reagan. All of them recently called for achievement of a nuclear weapon-free world.

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  Moving, Opportunity, Thinking

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• That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

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  4th Of July, Independence, July 4

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• Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

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  Men, Nails, Literature

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• Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.

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  Communication, Men, Roots

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.47, Syracuse University Press

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• The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

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  Life, Spiritual, Thinking

  JOHN BURROUGHS (1917). “STUDIES IN NATURE AND LITERATURE”

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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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  Nature, Truth, Hints

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

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  Nature, Order, May

  John Burroughs (1900). “The Light of Day: Religious Discussions and Criticisms from the Naturalist's Point of View”

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• Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall.

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  Fall, Weather, Air

  John Burroughs (2012). “In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs”, p.16, tredition

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• Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

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  Travel, Men, Moss

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• The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere, is not lost either upon the head or the heart. It is the philosopher coming back from the banquet and the wine to a cup of water and a crust of bread.

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  Heart, Wine, Winter

  John Burroughs (2012). “In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs”, p.15, tredition

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• Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power.

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  Nuclear, Weapons, States

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• Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of science has all the science before him to go upon, to set himself up in business with. What an enormous sum Darwin availed himself of and reinvested! Not so in literature; to every poet, to every artist, it is still the first day of creation, so far as the essentials of his task are concerned. Literature is not so much a fund to be reinvested as it is a crop to be ever new-grown.

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  Art, Science, Men

  John Burroughs (1905). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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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.

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  Home, Stranger, Coming Home

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

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  Weed, Garden, Plant

  John Burroughs (1901). “A year in the fields: selections from the writings of John Burroughs”

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• Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for the elimination of nuclear weapons and work for their marginalization in the meantime, we say you have to diminish the political value that's attached to nuclear weapons in order to give them less (kind of) desirability in the eyes of governments that do not now have them, and thus to help stop their spread.

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  Country, Eye, Government

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• The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

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  Nature, Flower, Smell

  John Burroughs (2008). “Pepacton”, p.211, Wildside Press LLC

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• The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook.

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  Sweet, Flower, Ambition

  John Burroughs (2008). “Pepacton”, p.58, Wildside Press LLC

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• Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

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  Lying, Character, Fate

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• Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

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  Goodbye, Running, Sweet

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.91, Syracuse University Press

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