Paul Fleischman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.
-- Paul Fleischman

#Spring #Lakes #Lake Erie
A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.
-- Paul Fleischman

#Gratitude #Memories #Cheer
That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.
-- Paul Fleischman

#Home #Garden #Circles
The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.
-- Paul Fleischman

#Friendship #Eye #Garden
Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.
-- Paul Fleischman

#Mean #Reality #Body
Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.
-- Paul Fleischman

#Ethnicity #Class #Race
A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.
-- Paul Fleischman

#Voice #Thousand
The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.
-- Paul Fleischman

#Peace #Simple #Two
Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.
-- Paul Fleischman

#Radio #Invisible #Listeners

She turned to the sunlight Â Â Â Â And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: Â Â Â Â "Winter is dead.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.
Money doesn't grow on trees but it does hang out in lakes
Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or into a canoe and heading for the hills or lakes. In my opinion, camping can be the greatest expression of free will, personal independence, innate ability, and resourcefulness possible today in our industrialized, urbanized existence. Regardless of how miserable or how splendid the circumstances, the sheer experience of camping seems a total justification for doing it.
Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise, and orderly arranged, after the manner of the copper or tin worms, which distillers use to cool their liquors as they distil over. The whole circumference of each of these streaks was about the thickness of a hair of one's head. ... all consisted of very small green globules joined together: and there were very many small green globules as well. [The earliest recorded observation of the common green alga Spyrogyra.]
There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity, that he has obtained the name 'Salmo Ferox'. I pull about this unnatural monster till he is tired, land him, and administer the coup de grace. Is this cruel? Cruelty should be made of sterner stuff.

Paul Fleischman famous quotes

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