John Burroughs

Puzzles

• How beautifully ___ grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to John Burroughs?

  • → Do one thing every day that scares you.
  • → I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
  • → We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
  • → I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to John Burroughs.

  • → In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe all to all men.
  • → Whenever you fall, pick something up.
  • → If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
  • → Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to John Burroughs.

  • → Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
  • → Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
  • → Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
  • → I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
  
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