Marion Dudley Cran famous quotes

... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first.
-- Marion Dudley Cran

#Happiness #Garden #Allies

It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.
-- Marion Dudley Cran

#Garden #Doors #Essentials

I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit the town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.
-- Marion Dudley Cran

#Flower #Heart #Fate

So many of our lessons are learned, it would seem, too late to use on Earth.
-- Marion Dudley Cran

#Learning #Too Late #Use

Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.
-- Marion Dudley Cran

#Nature #Home #Green Fields

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness

The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia.

You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally,