Every walk to the woods is a ...

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth. There are no heretics in Nature's church; all are believers, all are communicants. The beauty of natural religion is that you have it all the time; you do not have to seek it afar off in myths and legends, in catacombs, in garbled texts, in miracles of dead saints or wine-bibbing friars. It is of today; it is now and here; it is everywhere.
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 John Burroughs

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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or airplane or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent thinking and knowing faculty, but always as a personality, always as a complete human entity, never can expound itself, because its operations are synthetic and not analytic; its mainspring is love and not mere knowledge.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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