Peter Cundall famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old you are.
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Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!
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It is a good life, if you're doing what you like doing.
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Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled or been killed, and baits are laid waiting for those that should return. And in these tortured places, the devastation is brutal and total. And this is what greed looks like.
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I have an optimism about what people are willing to do. The greatest force in the world today, believe it or not, are these countless groups of people in every country almost... that are doing things to protect their local environment and to try and protect the earth.
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You've got to involve yourself in doing something for other people all the time. I know that sounds sentimental, but you see, ordinary people are the most generous people on Earth without question. And what I think we should do is constantly try to give as much of ourselves as we can to each other - that's the secret of happiness for all of us.
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My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy.
-- Peter Cundall
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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
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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.
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There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.
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Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
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Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
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Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
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When all else fails, complicate matters
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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