„I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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„The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.“
— Haruki Murakami
„No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.“
— Mikhail Bakunin
„One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.“
— John Muir