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Comprehensive information about poet John Burroughs including poetry, biographical information, quotes, literary works, and more. JOHN BURROUGHS was an American poet and writer on natural history, was born in Roxbury, Delaware county, New York, on the 3rd of April 1837. This educational John Burroughs resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.


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Quote Left Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. Quote Right
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Quote Left Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. Quote Right
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Quote Left Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these. Quote Right
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Quote Left Life is a struggle, but not a warfare. Quote Right
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Quote Left 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. Quote Right
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