"Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting."

-- Eleanor Perenyi

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“The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.”
“The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines.”
“From sports the greatest thing I've learned is discipline achieves goals.”
“Unity is important but we have to define it. If we are talking about uniformity, that is not helping anybody because our distinctions are important. These are things that God created. I am what I am because I am supposed to be.”
“It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.”
“I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.”
“Perhaps the most important marketing step any business can take is to discover a way to be different.”
“I am right. I`m always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.”

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