"Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a few hints, but we might as well abandon our spades and pitchforks as pretend that nature is everything and art nothing."

--

Source : James Shirley Hibberd (1871). “The amateur's flower garden”, p.223

Shirley Hibberd

#Art Quotes #Garden Quotes #Warfare Quotes

“If you can sit quietly after difficult news, if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm, if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy, if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate, and fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill,â€¦ Â if you can always find contentment just where you are, you are probably a dog.”

Source : "A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times". Book by Jack Kornfield, www.lionsroar.com. 2011.
“One of the most startling discoveries of my career was when I realized that the strongest women in the world are not lesbians but heterosexual women, who know how to handle men.”
“I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.”
“No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.”
“This idea of helping the next generation is a very intrinsic part of photojournalism. We need to continue to build this new group of photographers that come in and tell these stories.”
“Often people try and just consider music as music, in a musical context. People seem to forget that music is not just audio material - it's also the artwork, the packaging it comes in.”

Source : Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008.
“If I worked 8 months on a deal and it didn't go through - I'd punch a wall, get depressed and change careers.”
“The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethovenâ€™s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the most seductive, was written by Max Bruch. But the most inward, the heartâ€™s jewel, is Mendelssohnâ€™s.”

You may also like:

John Gerard
Botanist
Philippe Quinault