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Quote by John Muir
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. – John Muir

Other quotes by John Muir

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. – John Muir

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Nature
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John Muir
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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. – John Muir

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Travel
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A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. – John Muir

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Trees
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Other Quotes from
Bees
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It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted. – Author Unknown

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Bees

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy. – Emily Dickinson

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Bees

Opening a window to let out a fly and ending up with thirty midges, three wasps, two bees and an owl. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse

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Bees

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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Bees

Random Quotes

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. – Charles de Gaulle

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Imagination

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. – Sivananda

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good

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance – but then they forget to direct you. – Samantha Morton

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Trust

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. – Voltaire

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great