"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention."
"The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all, and are the final source of all. ... Time, geologic time, looks out at us from the rocks as from no other objects in the landscape."
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Source: John Burroughs (1924). “Under the apple trees”
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