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garden boston house
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
garden thinking mind
[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.
garden perfect definitions
Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him. Cory Doctorow
gardening television chef
Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs? David Attenborough
garden order color
We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure. Robert Frost
garden should-have years
I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year. Thomas Jefferson
garden design should
Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens. Tom Turner
garden rocks water
My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants. Russell Page
garden earth natural
Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.
animal hate people
People are well-intentioned. They hate to see an animal starve. Becky Wilson
animals climate compared easy facts less life people perhaps privileged stunned survive takes time
The simple facts of Chadian life - what it takes to survive in that kind of climate with nothing but a hut and some animals - stunned me. And this made me realize, perhaps for the first time, how easy my life was compared to those of people in less privileged societies. Alex Honnold
animals chance homeless prevent rescued second
Something must be done to prevent more homeless puppies. All animals rescued by Second Chance are spayed and neutered, but it is very expensive.
animal vegetables miracle
The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans. Barbara Kingsolver
animal beat few finish horses quarter runs second
There are very few horses that can go with this horse for the first half-mile. He runs the second quarter as fast, if not faster, than the first quarter and he can finish from there. He's an exceptional animal, and it is really going to take an exceptional animal to beat him.
animal awful bloody
I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time. Brian Blessed
animal want remember
I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals. Jane Goodall
animal individuality intuition
When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.
animal people way
The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals. Jamie Fellner
numbers addresses mixing
I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that. Ashley Scott
numbers empathy able
That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons. Jane Addams
numbers different use
There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes. Edward Snowden
numbers letters mail
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge. Brian Greene
numbers borders jerusalem
The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem. Ehud Olmert
numbers arrogance losing
In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot. Dirk Benedict
numbers theatre important
I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance. David Bowie
numbers focus viewpoints
I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present. Doris Lessing
numbers poetry-and-music may
You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. Alfred North Whitehead