Elisabeth Murdoch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.
-- Elisabeth Murdoch

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Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden.
-- Elisabeth Murdoch

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It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and for freedom.
-- Elisabeth Murdoch

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It's very tiring, being so old. But I do love living.
-- Elisabeth Murdoch

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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
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.
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.
I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.
When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

Elisabeth Murdoch famous quotes

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