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

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Keep close to Natures heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. – John Muir

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One swallow will not make spring, nor one bee honey. – Proverb

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. – James Russell Lowell

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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. – Abraham Lincoln

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Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them. – James Ellis, quoted in Edge-Tools of Speech by Maturin M. Ballou, 1899

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