One goes to Nature only for hints and half truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

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Original Citation

Burroughs, John. "A Sharp Lookout." Signs and Seasons. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886.

Current Citation

Burroughs, John. "A Sharp Lookout." Signs and Seasons. Syracuse University Press, 2006.