Edna Walling famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I never cease to be thrilled when entering my own gateway... and always feel that entrance gardens should give the first sensation of rest to those returning home.
-- Edna Walling

#Home #Garden #Giving
There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer's individual response to gardens. For my part, I love all things most gardeners abhor... I like the whole thing to be as wild as possible, so that you have to fight your way through in places...
-- Edna Walling

#Fighting #Garden #Design
Nature is our greatest teacher.
-- Edna Walling

#Teacher #Nature

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.
Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.
I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.
I don't do office work at home.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

Edna Walling famous quotes

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