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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

— John Burroughs

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in William Martin What Liberals Believe: Thousands of Quotes on Why America Needs to Be Rescued from Greedy Corporations, Homophobes, Racists, Imperialists, Xenophobes, and Religious Extremists, Skyhorse Publishing Inc., 2008, p. 492.

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