Marie-Luise Gothein famous quotes

Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness.
-- Marie-Luise Gothein

#Beauty #Struggle #Delight

For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.
-- Marie-Luise Gothein

#Death #Taken #Garden

Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the contemplation of the divine; but with a prophetic eye we may see that the garden will often be dedicated in a like manner: at a later time Greek philosophers, and monks in early Christian days, will retire into their gardens for united, yet silent, contemplation.
-- Marie-Luise Gothein

#Christian #Eye #Garden

Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens.
-- Marie-Luise Gothein

#Garden #Arbors #Ornaments

In the religion of the Medes and Persians the cult of trees plays an important part, and with them, as with Assyrians, the symbol of eternal life was a tree with a stream at its roots. Another object of veneration was the sacred miracle tree, which within itself contained the seeds of all.
-- Marie-Luise Gothein

#Life #Play #Roots

To Nature the dweller in the Nile valley linked all that was dear to him: his happiest fetes, poetry, and love - all were bound up with the garden and its products, especially flowers. Few Oriental nations can think of a festival without flowers, but nowhere are they so completely a part of human life, and so essential, as in [Ancient] Egypt.
-- Marie-Luise Gothein

#Life #Nature #Flower

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

Man has become great through struggle

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.