Go to the Woods

 Saint Bernard

Let nature be your teacher. What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scripture, I learned in woods and fields. I have had no other master than the beeches and the oaks. Listen to a man of experience: You will learn more in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you more than you can acquire from the mouth of the most gifted preacher.

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Quoted in The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley, page 69