Nan Fairbrother
Nan Fairbrother
Nan Fairbrotherwas an English writer and lecturer on landscape and land use. She was a Member of the UK Institute of Landscape Architects, now the Landscape Institute. Her brotherFairbrother) was also a landscape architect. Fairbrother was born in Coventry, England, and attended the University of London, graduating with honours in English. After graduation, she worked as a hospital physiotherapist, before settling in London. In 1939 she married William McKenzie, a physician. Their son, Dan McKenzie, was a Cambridge geophysicist instrumental...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
attitude mind leisure
leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
happiness luxury would-be
I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
happiness giving people
Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.
eye hair people
There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.
dream needs youth
happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.
enthusiasm soil different
Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.
knows
We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?
understanding should offers
Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.
division use humans
One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.
priorities essentials crowds
the urgent crowds out the essential.
stories plot momentum
Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.
fighting friendly way
perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly ...
gratitude cheer men
A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.
garden would-be plant
If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.