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Distant Quotes by John Burroughs
- The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
- One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite…
- 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…
- 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…
More Distant Quotes
- Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people… — Hugo Black
- A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of… — Martin Rees
- If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is… — Salman Rushdie
- We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos… — Carl Sagan
- Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and… — Ezra Taft Benson
- There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant… — Jean de la Bruyere
- God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual… — William Ellery Channing