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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. Diane Ackerman
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. Russell Page
wicked grit true-grit
The wicked flee when none pursueth. Charles Portis
wickedness weakness pity
Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness. Lucy Maud Montgomery
said
Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves. Theodor Reik
said
I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing. Frank Robinson
said cracked knows
Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going. J. R. R. Tolkien
said wiser
You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now. Romy Schneider
said
What cannot be said will be wept. Sappho
said heard knows
I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant. Richard M. Nixon
said
The less said about me the better. William Carey
said notes has-beens
Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said. Thomas a Kempis
said politically-correct
I'm not politically correct; I never said I was. Joshua Homme