"If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees."

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Source : Hal Borland (2014). “Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country”, p.77, Open Road Media

Hal Borland

#Strength Quotes #Patience Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat.”

Source : Jacob August Riis (1914). “How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York”
“Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.”
“I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.”
“It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.”
“I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.”
“Spouses have each other, and even when one eventually dies, they have memories of a time when they existed before that other person and can more readily imagine a life without them. Likewise, parents may have other children to be concerned with--a future to protect for them. To lose a sibling is to lose the one person with whom one shares a lifelong bond that is meant to continue on into the future.”

Source : John Corey Whaley (2012). “Where Things Come Back”, p.175, Simon and Schuster
“The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.”

Source : Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.151, Univ of California Press
“Basketball is not a democratic sport”

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