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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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To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. – 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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Every saint has a bee in his halo. – Elbert Hubbard

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

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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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All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. – Richard Le Gallienne

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Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life. – Rebecca Romijn

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