Richardson Wright famous quotes

Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year.
-- Richardson Wright

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A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.
-- Richardson Wright

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Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask, "What is that?"
-- Richardson Wright

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Plants, like people, are social or anti-social: the good plant has to be able to live amicably with other plants in the border.
-- Richardson Wright

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Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities of another world. And they draw the interest of delight and refreshment according to the measure of their investment. These are usually quaint folk, other-worldly in their manner, but capable of comprehending the idiosyncrasies of Nature as she displays them in a tree and bush and passing season, across the skyline and in the infinite zenith. These, moreover, are the successful gardeners.
-- Richardson Wright

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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.

I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.

In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.

The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?

For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.