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date: 21 June 2025

St Bernard of Clairvaux 1090–1153
French theologian, monastic reformer, and abbot. See also Caswall 

  1. You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
    Epistles no. 106; see Shakespeare, Wordsworth