"A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all."

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Source : Beverley Nichols (1968). “Garden open tomorrow”, Butterworth-Heinemann

Beverley Nichols

#Cat Quotes #Garden Quotes #Deserve Quotes

“Gifford Pinchot points out that in colonial and pioneer days the forest was a foe and an obstacle to the settler. It had to be cleared away... But [now] as a nation we have not yet come to have a proper respect for the forest and to regard it as an indispensable part of our resources-one which is easily destroyed but difficult to replace; one which confers great benefits while it endures, but whose disappearance is accompanied by a train of evil consequences not readily foreseen and positively irreparable.”
“Dear Algebra, stop asking us to find your X, sheâ€™s not coming back”
“By listening, marketing will re-learn how to talk.”

Source : Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger (2011). “The Cluetrain Manifesto: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.186, Basic Books
“If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!”
“I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.”
“Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.”
“It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only encourage him to increase his deceptions.”
“Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.”

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