"The affluent society has built well in terms of economic progress, but has neglected the protection of the very water we drink as well as the values of fish and wildlife, scenic, and outdoor recreation resources. Although often measureless in commercial terms, these values must be preserved by a program that will guarantee America some semblance of her great heritage of beautiful rivers."

-- Frank Church

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“Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.”
“Open up your plans and damn you're free!”
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
“There is a joy in the actual taste of vanilla ice cream that does not come from knowing the chemical formula of vanilla. There is a joy, an inherent aliveness in the body that you can experience if you pay attention to your body. But if you live up in your head, in your words all the time, you don't notice it.”
“I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.”
“I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark. Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.”

Source : Julie Moir Messervy (2007). “The Inward Garden: Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning”, p.19, Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
“Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket.”
“You learn so much with each book, but it's what you teach yourself by writing your own books and by reading good books written by other people - that's the key. You don't want to worry too much about other people's responses to your work, not during the writing and not after. You just need to read and write, and keep going.”

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