"I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the kindly branchlets through one's hand, and have the enjoyment of their incomparable incense; and I grow it against walls, so that the sun may draw out its inexhaustible sweetness to greet me as I pass."

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Source : Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

Gertrude Jekyll

#Wall Quotes #Garden Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Love is the new denim or black”
“I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'”
“Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.”
“To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.”
“Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind”
“Where the determination is, the way can be found.”

Source : George S. Clason, Theresa Puskar (2014). “The Richest Man in Babylon: With Study Guide”, p.180, Hachette UK
“We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.”

Source : Evelyn Underhill, Christopher L. Webber (2006). “Advent with Evelyn Underhill”, p.43, Church Publishing, Inc.
“What are stories for if we don't learn from them?”

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