Paul Fleischman Professions : Writer Born : September 5, 1952 Browse All Authors Top 19 quotes by Paul Fleischman You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland. Paul Fleischman cleveland lakes spring Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity. Paul Fleischman ethnicity race class The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have. Paul Fleischman simple peace two A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice. Paul Fleischman voice thousand That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts. Paul Fleischman circles garden home Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life. Paul Fleischman mindfulness mean reality The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors. Paul Fleischman eye friendship life Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping. Paul Fleischman listeners invisible radio A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily. Paul Fleischman gratitude cheer appreciation I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way. Paul Fleischman you work life people The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with. Paul Fleischman words come up hardest I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter. Paul Fleischman slow think you care Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves. Paul Fleischman open eyes parents next I grew up in a house that might have had the only front-yard cornfield in all of Los Angeles. Paul Fleischman only up los-angeles house Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing. Paul Fleischman doing money nature science People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt. Paul Fleischman direction like facts people I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn't that hard at all. Paul Fleischman diet myself hard people What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be. Paul Fleischman better place riding writing Warming is incontrovertible, so in general, you're going to have more droughts, more fires. So I think events like that are the best thing that could happen for righting our ship and getting us on a safer course. Paul Fleischman ship best think you Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
