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

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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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[L]et us linger awhile in the wonderful old Lilac walk. It is a glory of tender green and shaded amethyst and grateful hum of bees, the very voice of Spring. – Alice Morse Earle, “In Lilac Tide,” Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth, 1901

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

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