How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

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About John Burroughs

John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 – March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871.

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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 than you think.

—John Burroughs

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

—John Burroughs

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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

—John Burroughs

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The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

—John Burroughs

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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

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When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength 400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.

—Elon Musk

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It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.

—Woody Allen

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

—Aristotle

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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

—Anton Chekhov

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Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.

—Evita Peron

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