"As Paradise (though of God's own Planting) was no longer Paradise than the Man was put into it, to dress it and to keep it, so nor will our Gardens remain long in their perfection unless they are also continually cultivated."

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Source : John Evelyn, William Upcott (1825). “Miscellaneous Writings”, p.430, London : H. Colburn

John Evelyn

#Men Quotes #Garden Quotes #Long Quotes

“I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.”

Source : Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2016.
“You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.”
“And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.”
“I'm young. I'm pretty. And I'm willing to burn the whole world to the ground to get what I want.”
“When somebody is determined to whup your ass, without regard to any concern for what is fair, you must recognize that the only alternative is to whup his ass by whatever means or methods are available.”
“There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.”

Source : Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.206
“Be true to yourself, know that your are more than your face and body, and keep God first.”

Source : "Supermodel Jessica White shares her top beauty tricks!". Seventeen interview, www.seventeen.com. May 20, 2008.
“In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'”

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