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Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and

Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world.

John Burroughs
Nature, Opportunity, Thinking

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

John Burroughs
Life, Stars, Opportunity
John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

John Burroughs
Inspirational, Humor, Opportunity
John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”

There tends to be this comfortable assumption that nuclear weapons won't be used, but I don't think that's warranted, and I think we should seize the opportunity of this time of stability and cooperation and move towards global elimination of nuclear weapons as indeed people like Henry Kissinger, and William Perry, former Secretary of Defense under Clinton, and Sam Nunn, former Senator, and George Schultz, former Undersecretary of State for Ronald Reagan. All of them recently called for achievement of a nuclear weapon-free world.

John Burroughs
Moving, Opportunity, Thinking

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