"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."

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Source : "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

John Lubbock

#Education Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Nature Quotes

“I believe in my heart I'm the best player in the world. I'm just a scorer. I try to put the ball in the basket for my team. I'm just confident in my ability to play ball.”
“We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.”
“In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.”
“After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.”
“Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself.”
“New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.”
“Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows that I am a massive Frank [Turner] fanboy.”
“Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.”

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