Barbara Damrosch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!
-- Barbara Damrosch

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Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.
-- Barbara Damrosch

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Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't.
-- Barbara Damrosch

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Good gardening is very simple, really. You just have to learn to think like a plant.
-- Barbara Damrosch

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Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow.
-- Barbara Damrosch

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The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging ... you know you have a multimillion-seller hit - and what you're working on suddenly has magic,
If you would bring the magic out of your mind - the magic which will transform everything - you must believe.
Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.
I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.

Barbara Damrosch famous quotes

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