"How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple arbor."

-- Rosemary Verey

#Simple Quotes #Garden Quotes #Rose Quotes

“If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources - partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder.”
“I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.”
“You donâ€™t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.”
“Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same time.”
“We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.”
“I find a very guilty pleasure in dark themes and vibes, and finding where the transcending nature of awareness meets this darkness.”
“Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.”
“The life that I have is all that I have and the life that I have is yours. The love that I have of the life that I have is yours and yours and yours.”

Source : 1958 Poemrecited by Virginia McKenna as Violette Szabo in Carve Her Name With Pride.

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