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~ In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. ~

Michel Montaigne

~ Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold? ~

Thomas Traherne

~ Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food. ~

George Crabbe

~ Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. ~

Henry David Thoreau

~ Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. ~

John Allen Paulos

~ Books are a uniquely portable magic ~

Stephen King

~ Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing. ~

Michael Berryman

~ And this, our life exempt from public haunts, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ~

J.R.R. Tolkien

~ Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clean air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free from noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste. And so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, brother to the other animals, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it. We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope. ~

Wallace Stegner

~ The variety of life in nature can be compared to a vast library of unread books, and the plundering of nature is comparable to the random discarding of whole volumes without having opened them, and learned from them. Our critical dependence on the great variety of nature for the progress we have already made has been amply documented. Indifference to the loss of species is, in effect, indifference to the future, and therefore a shameful carelessness about our children. ~

Peter Matthiessen

~ Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws. ~

John Adams

~ Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library and its books were the stones, leaves, grass, brooks and the birds and animals that shared, alike with us ,the storms and blessings of the earth. We learn to do what only the student of nature ever learns, and that is to feel beauty. We never rail at the storms, the furious winds ,the biting frosts and snows. To do so intensifies human futility, so whatever comes we should adjust ourselves by more effort and energy if necessary, but without complaint. Bright days and dark days are both expressions of the Great Mystery, and the Indian reveled in being close the the Great Holiness. ~

Chief Luther Standing Bear

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