"To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

#Garden Quotes #People Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.”
“I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.”
“[W]e are not morally bad people for taking carbon and turning it into the energy that offers life to humanity in a world that would otherwise be brutal (think of life before modernity). On the contrary, we are good people for doing so.”
“In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed, and about the carelessness and inclination toward bias that must be avoided is far more useful than all the rules and warnings of theoretical logic.”
“The one thing I find the least romantic is taking a horse and carriage ride. I can't express enough how unhappy these horses are and how much pain and suffering they go through each day. Please do not ride [in horse-drawn carriages]. Take a beautiful walk together with your loved ones instead of bringing more pain to these beautiful animals.”
“Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.”
“It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.”
“Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.”

Source : "Medical correspondent Dr. Ian Smith". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2010.

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