John Lubbock
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Sir John Lubbock John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC, (April 30, 1834–May 28, 1913), English banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist was born the son of Sir John William Lubbock, Bart.
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Attributed
- In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends on mainly what we are looking for.
- Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
- What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- Earth and Sky, Woods and Field, Lakes and Rivers, the mountains and the seas, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
