"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."
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John Burroughs
John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 - March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist.
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