"Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them."

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Source : Margery Fish (2011). “We Made a Garden”, p.39, Pavilion Books

Margery Fish

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“A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.”
“The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.64, Courier Corporation
“The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.”
“I constantly doubt myself. I only feel confident in front of the camera.”
“If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.”
“Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.”

Source : Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.49, Paulist Press
“My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.”
“Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something mattered. He said, "That's how I would kiss you, if I loved you.”

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