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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 glories of a mountain campfire are far greater than may be guessed…. One can make a day of any size, and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining. – John Muir

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Camping
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John Muir
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I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. – John Muir

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Nature
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Bees
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[T]he bees will buzz you a welcome from the hives at the end, and then the trees will stoop down about you, and you can look up into a green sky set with constellations of apples. – Margaret Troili, “Woods of Mendocino,” Out West: A Magazine of the O

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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

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

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Bees

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

Random Quotes

The American people are smart. Theyve gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger. – John Avlon

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Anger

We are each of us angels with only one wing, to fly we need only embrace each other. – Source Unknown

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Angels

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. – Thomas Fuller

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Miscellaneous

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again. – Andre Breton

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Humanity