Jeff Cox famous quotes

A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.
-- Jeff Cox

#Mother #Song #Garden

Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here.
-- Jeff Cox

#Wine #Encounters #Grapes

Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something beautiful about ourselves.
-- Jeff Cox

#Beauty #Beautiful #Garden

A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.
-- Jeff Cox

#Garden #Yield #Growth

Our notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden.
-- Jeff Cox

#Beautiful #Garden #Paradise

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.

When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.

The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.

Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not criticized for routinely giving their (live)stock nutritional supplements....superior to any sold for humans...Millions of families could plant home gardens if they truly wanted health. Refined food are practically unknown in Russia. The life expectancy of the 40-year-old American is near the lowest in the world.

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.