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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you… — St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

In the original Latin

aliquid amplius invenies in silvis, quam in libris. Ligna et lapides docebunt te, quod a magistris audire non possis.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux
1147
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Spending time in natureNature
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Letter
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1147Middle Ages
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St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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Current citation
Clairvaux, St. Bernard. "Letter CVI." Life and Works of Saint Bernard. Aeterna Press, 2015.
Original citation
Clairvaux, St. Bernard. Letter to Magister Henry Murdach. c. 1150.

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