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John Burroughs Quotes

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You cannot cause disproportionate damage to the environment; you cannot harm neutral states. The court said that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is generally contrary to the international law of armed conflict.  (John Burroughs Quotes) In 2002 the [George] Bush administration effectively put an end to negotiations of an agreement which would have established inspection procedures to ensure or to monitor compliance with the existing legal ban on biological weapons.  (John Burroughs Quotes) In fact, the United States is building up its trident nuclear sub fleet in the Pacific, based at Bangor, Washington to build up its capabilities to wage nuclear war.  (John Burroughs Quotes) 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.  (John Burroughs Quotes) Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it’s very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige.  (John Burroughs Quotes) [Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.  (John Burroughs Quotes) The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all, and are the final source of all. ... Time, geologic time, looks out at us from the rocks as from no other objects in the landscape.  (John Burroughs Quotes) Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.  (John Burroughs Quotes) The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind  (John Burroughs Quotes) Literature is an investment in genius which pays back dividends to all subsequent times  (John Burroughs Quotes) To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another  (John Burroughs Quotes) Without death and decay, how could life go on?  (John Burroughs Quotes) Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact  (John Burroughs Quotes) If you want to see birds, you must have birds in your heart  (John Burroughs Quotes) It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative  (John Burroughs Quotes) One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then  (John Burroughs Quotes) One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds  (John Burroughs Quotes) Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live  (John Burroughs Quotes) Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times  (John Burroughs Quotes) I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see  (John Burroughs Quotes) One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things  (John Burroughs Quotes) How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!  (John Burroughs Quotes) I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree  (John Burroughs Quotes) Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work  (John Burroughs Quotes) The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood  (John Burroughs Quotes) The poor old earth which has mothered us and nursed us we treat with scant respect. Our awe and veneration we reserve for the worlds we know not of. Our senses sell us out. The mud on our shoes disenchants us  (John Burroughs Quotes) I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral  (John Burroughs Quotes) If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go  (John Burroughs Quotes) Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral  (John Burroughs Quotes) The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are  (John Burroughs Quotes)
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