"Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings."

-- Russell Page

#Garden Quotes #Earth Quotes #Natural Quotes

“Space and time are figments of you're imagination, unless the guy you're flying next to won't shut up.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 10, 2012
“She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.”

Source : Song: Sk8er Boi, Album: Let Go, 2002
“Grant me paradise in this world; I'm not so sure I'll reach it in the next.”
“Today religion is increasingly pushed aside by secularizing influences such as the university, the media, and politics. Rather than having a major voice in public life, religion has been relegated to the private and the personal.”
“I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together. Each person is having a very personal and maybe even emotional experience, but it's in the confines of an extremely quiet and sterile room.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.”

Source : "Michelangelo Antonioni : The Complete Films" edited by Seymour Chatman and Paul Duncan, (p. 113), 2004.
“I love Chinese food, like steamed dim sum, and I can have noodles morning, noon and night, hot or cold. I like food that's very simple on the digestive system - I tend to keep it light. I love Japanese food too - sushi, sashimi and miso soup.”

Source : "What's in your basket?". Interview with John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2008.
“Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns.”

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