William Kent
William Kent
William Kentwas an eminent English architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th century...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionArchitect
beauty garden design
All gardening is landscape painting.
garden feelings shade
A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.
garden forever gardening
Garden as though you will live forever.
drives great
When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.
cork freed novels
'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.
authors whether work
I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?
deal god honest journey knock love might work
Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.
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Readers anticipate that a significant element of every story will be additional exposure to the ways of the Ojibwe. The truth is that I enjoy this aspect of the work. Although I have no Indian blood running through my veins, in college I prepared to be a cultural anthropologist, so exploring other cultures is exciting to me.
beautiful book sleep
Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.
giving deserve
What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.
morning miracle able
The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.
long here-and-there moments
And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.
night doubt accomplices
I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.
heart men air
We turn, three men bound by love, by history, by circumstance, and most certainly by the awful grace of God, and together walk a narrow lane where headstones press close all around, reminding me gently of Warren Redstone’s parting wisdom, which I understand now. The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.