John Burroughs

American naturalist and essayist (1837-1921)

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Born: 3 April 1837
Died: 29 March 1921
Works: 394

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Indoor studies
A glance at British wild flowers
In the Catskills
Pepacton
Sharp eyes & other papers

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1914-02-05
Active to: 1997-08-02

beat poetry

Discography

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5 total works indexed

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,574x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,691x
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,351x
Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,324x
The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,853x

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Quotes

“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
“Science has fairly turned us out of our comfortable little anthropomorphic notion of things into the great out-of-doors of the universe. We must and will get used to the chill, yea, to the cosmic chill, if need be. Our religious instincts will be all the hardier for it.”
“Theology passes; religion, as a sentiment or feeling of awe and reverence in the presence of the vastness and mystery of the universe, remains.”
“We are like figures which some great demonstrator draws upon the blackboard of Time. A problem is to be solved, without doubt; what the problem is, we, the figures, cannot know and do not need to know; all we know is that sooner or later we shall be sponged off the board and other figures take our places, and the demonstration go on.”
“From the first the progress of man has been slowly but surely from the artificial to the natural, from the arbitrary and chimerical to the simple and scientific. Getting himself and his affairs more and more into natural currents and following them, this is the way man has progressed.”
“All political progress has been the removal of forced and artificial relations among men, and the establishment of natural relations. Democracy is a search for natural leaders and the rights and privileges that belong to man by virtue of his manhood.”