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“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”
― John Muir

“I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear to part with because of an aesthetic or emotional attachment.”
― Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

“Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.”
― Simon Barnes

“All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.”
― Clive James