Archive for April 2014

Vita Sackville-West

Monday, April 28, 2014

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life....  Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days!  He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm.  A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place.  He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.

Steve Jobs

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Janet Fitch

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. And intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

Sophia Loren

I’m pretty comfortable with my body. I’m imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once. Kate Hudson
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now. Alan Cohen
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.

H. G. Dwight

There is something in us that loves symmetry, selection, arrangement, as well as wildness and irregularity. A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself than a small lawn.  The usual lawn expresses nothing so much a vacancy of mind or an impious waste of good material; whereas in a garden any man may be an artist, may experiment with all the subtleties or simplicities of line, mass, color, and composition, and taste the god-like joys of the creator.

Rachel Carson

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.  There is a symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring.  There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.  The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world...are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty?  Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me.  We put survival first.  But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it in the search for the beautiful.  Who can say that Nature does not do the same?

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