Christianity Quote by John Burroughs

“The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.” quote by John Burroughs — Download Open image

“The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.”

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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without…

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Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the…

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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people…

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Science sees the process of evolution from the outside, as one might a train of cars going by, and resolves it into the physical…

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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…

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One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

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I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

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When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or muffled and…

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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually…

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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to…

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One can return to their place of birth, but one cannot go back to your youth.

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