"A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom."

-- Nelson Mandela

#Simple Quotes #Garden Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.”
“If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.”
“The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.”
“Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And thatâ€™s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.”
“We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.”
“At bottom are only two pure forms of legislation - productive and redistributive.”
“Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.”
“Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.”

You may also like:

Barack Obama
44th U.S. President
Frederik Willem de Klerk
Former State President of South Africa
Graca Machel
Minister for Education and Culture of Mozambique
Mahatma Gandhi
Lawyer
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil rights activist
Morgan Freeman
Actor
Mother Teresa
Saint
Rosa Parks
Activist
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
South African Politician