Quote by John Burroughs
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the str

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. – John Burroughs

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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. – John Burroughs

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Trees
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. – John Burroughs

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History
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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. – John Burroughs

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Personality
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The earth is like a spaceship that didnt come with an operating manual. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Earth

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. – Rachel Carson

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Earth

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom. – Clarence Darrow

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Earth

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Earth

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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them. – Sitting Bull

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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well. – Robert Herrick

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I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who werent born. For people who werent born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check. – Kevin Costner

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