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.

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

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) French religious, Doctor of the Church, saint

Letter 106, Sec. 2

In Edward Churton, The Early English Church (1841).