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Us Quotes by John Burroughs
- Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels and…
- 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,…
- How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us…
- The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
- Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
- The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd…
- One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle