"Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness."

-- Ben Aaronovitch

#Garden Quotes #Tree Quotes #Parks Quotes

“To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.”
“I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.”
“Any and all religions are real, the genuine article, to their practitioners. There can never be one religion, prophet, or savior that will satisfy all six billion humans. Each of us must find our ideal way to attune with deity.”

Source : Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.26, Llewellyn Worldwide
“As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.”
“Success is a fruit of slow growth.”
“A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.”

Source : 1822 In R B Beckett (ed) Constable's Correspondence, Suffolk Records Society (1962-70).
“In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.”

Source : Letter, May 17, 1867.
“Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.”

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