"A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with oneâ€™s personal history and that ofÂ oneâ€™s friends, interwoven with oneâ€™s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography."

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Source : Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”

Alfred Austin

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“For a moment there I convinced myself I had my back against a wall, and suddenly the only wall I find my back against is that of a 10 by 10 writing shack in Glendale, where the summer days average between 90 and 100 and each song can be quantified in the sweat it took to write it. There is no ac in hell, and sometimes you've got to get down to get up. The train is gaining speed I should think.”
“When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.”
“Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.”
“The same creative force that generated the universe created your body. It is vibrating with intelligence and spirit. It is ultimately sacred and worthy of your love, respect and intention. Take good care of it and nourish it with the most healing, life-sustaining foods, experiences, and sensory impressions.”
“Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate-the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value ... wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.”
“Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.”

Source : Reinhard Bendix (1990). “Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology”, p.56, Univ of California Press
“Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.”
“People who enjoy what they do, invariably do it well.”

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