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Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

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

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