"War is only glorious when you buy it in the Daily Mail and enjoy it at the breakfast table. It goes splendidly with bacon and eggs. Real war is the final limit of damnable brutality, and thatâ€™s all there is in it."

-- Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

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“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
“You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.”
“A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1974). “The nature of landscape design: as an art form, a craft, a social necessity”, Alfred A. Knopf
“I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are - they are traitors and they don't deserve to hold elective office in this country.”
“How do you beat an individual who hasn't been beaten in 13 years? With the help of others.”
“A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'”
“John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.”
“We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable from the former point of view.”

Source : Asa Gray (1973). “Letters of Asa Gray”

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