Quotes by Garden A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells. Diana Wynne Jones garden should natural Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives. Diane Ackerman boston garden house Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them. Diane Ackerman garden journey struggle Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet. Diane Ackerman smell sugar garden Who can stop climate change? We can. You and you and you, and me. And it is not just that we can stop it, we have a responsibility to do so that began in the genesis of humanity, when God commanded the earliest human inhabitants of the Garden of Eden, "to till it and keep it". To "keep" it; not to abuse it, not to make as much money as possible from it, not to destroy it. Desmond Tutu garden eden responsibility White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon! Dick Gregory garden college school Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places. Diego Luna london garden feelings Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot Dixie Lee Ray neglected woods garden I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to. Don Henley garden knowing spiritual What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place. Donald C. Peattie weed definitions garden I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets have the conditions, the physical conditions, to support life in the way it happened here, did Christ visit each and every planet, go through the same routine, the Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and so on. Donald Barthelme agony garden intelligent The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust. Donna J. Haraway garden dust dream Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised extremely simple symbols which he dispersed felicitously on his shining grounds. These bright, often linear hieroglyphs serve both as pictorial animators-they often flow in winding patterns or like fluent handwriting-and as references to the plentitude of the artist's existence. Gardens and sky and human joy are read in these exceedingly compressed forms. Dore Ashton garden artist simple The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple. Doris Janzen Longacre garden simple life Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. Doris Day beauty-everywhere garden animal What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened. Dorothy Gilman garden time past In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden. Dorothy Richardson longing shadow garden I've been a dweller on the plains, have sighed when summer days were gone; No more I'll sigh; for winter here Hath gladsome gardens of his own. Dorothy Wordsworth garden summer winter There's no doubt in my mind that we'll have a mania in gold. And because the gold and especially silver markets are so tiny, the rush into them will be like trying to push the contents of Hoover Dam through a garden hose. Our positions will go absolutely ballistic. Doug Casey garden doubt mind After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier. Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig coffee garden war «1718192021222324252627»