Facts Quote by John Burroughs

“The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.”

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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…

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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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He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought.

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Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t…

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I'm Fine!, the most common LIE in the world...

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The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,…

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

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Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

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I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing…

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