One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking John Burroughs More Quotes by John Burroughs More Quotes From John Burroughs To see Earth fully we already need to love it John Burroughs earth needs 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. John Burroughs blessed work fun 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 nuclear use law 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. John Burroughs atheist men world I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality of the Nature Providence is best; that we are made strong by what we overcome; that man is man because he is as free to do evil as to do good; that life is as free to develop hostile forms as to develop friendly; that power waits upon him who earns it; that disease, wars, the unloosened, devastating elemental forces have each and all played their part in developing and hardening man and giving him the heroic fiber. John Burroughs strong war life 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. John Burroughs nature sea rivers The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives - and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song! John Burroughs nature song beautiful Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power. John Burroughs nuclear states weapons The only countries that are outside of [ Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] are Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea withdrew in the last few years. John Burroughs korea israel country Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact. John Burroughs significant yield facts One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. John Burroughs weed plant garden We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks. John Burroughs mountain-peaks mountain walks [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. John Burroughs science knowledge thinking The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast stone brigades during the ice age; they have been torn from the hills, recruited from the mountaintops, and marshaled on the plains and in the valleys; and now the elemental war is over, there they lie waging a gentle but incessant warfare with time and slowly, oh, so slowly, yielding to its attacks! John Burroughs war science lying [T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove. John Burroughs kitchen fashion weather 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. John Burroughs nature secret order 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. John Burroughs angel dark men Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also. John Burroughs coming-home stranger home 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. John Burroughs government eye country 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. John Burroughs use home world
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