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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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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Natures peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you… while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. – John Muir

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Climbing
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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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environmental
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Other Quotes from
Bees
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One swallow will not make spring, nor one bee honey. – Proverb

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Bees

Every saint has a bee in his halo. – Elbert Hubbard

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Bees

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

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Bees
[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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Bees

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If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. – Ruth Benedict

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The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. – Max Irons

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respect

For me, I dont feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth. – Emmanuelle Beart

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Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us. – George Eliot, Adam Bede

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Integrity