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

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Society
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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. – John Burroughs

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

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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. – Adlai Stevenson

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Earth

In the broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection. – Walt Whitman

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Earth

The world is in balance <...>. To light a candle is to cast a shadow. – Ursula K. LeGuin

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The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. – Buddha

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They say that ninety percent of TV is junk. But, ninety percent of everything is junk. – Gene Roddenberry

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Im not out burning bras, but Im very opinionated about women owning their power. – Katherine Heigl

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