Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it

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"The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."

- John Muir

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"Most people are on the world, not in it – having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them."

- John Muir

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"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."

- John Muir

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"And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul."

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"You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you."

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

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"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

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"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

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"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

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