Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lurlis Simmons

We're in the process of rebuilding the garden and refurbishing everything in it.

Rick Bragg

Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe

William Lawson

A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

William Lawson

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

William Lawson

What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.

William Wordsworth

Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

William Shenstone

A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

William Morris

As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All nature seems at work.

Capt. McDonough

It could have been worse if the tree hadn't been watered.

William McDonough

Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

William McDonough

The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

Woodrow Wilson

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

William Wordsworth

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

William Shenstone

In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.

William Shatner

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

Tori Amos

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree

Samuel Rutherford

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.

Matt Stone

He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.

Richard P. Feynman

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

Richard John Neuhaus

All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.

Richard Dawkins

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

Richard Dawkins

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

Richard Dawkins

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

Reza Aslan

Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.

William Robertson Smith

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

William J. Clinton

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.