Reading is Gold

"Books are the carriers of civilisation. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilisation would have been impossible. They are engines of change. ... windows on the world and lighthouses erected in a sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind."

"Books are humanity in print."

Barbara W. Tuchman, historian and Pulitzer Prize winner.

"Books are the threads from which the fabric of our culture and civilisation are woven."

Richard W. Clement.

" It is difficult to imagine how some of the great turning points in Western history, could have been achieved without [the book]. The Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the age of Enlightenment all relied on the printed word for their spread and permanent influence. For two and a half millennia, humanity used the book, in its manuscript or printed form, to record, to administer, to worship and to educate."

Martyn Lyon

These three quotations were taken – with permission – from the Website of Brisbane Grammar school.