"Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart."

-- Russell Page

#Heart Quotes #Garden Quotes #Green Quotes

“Therapy is too good to be limited to the sick.”

Source : Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”
“I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.”
“This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is of the greatest philosophic significance and importance... How former philosophers have broken their heads over the question of the bond between body and soul! Now we know, on scientific grounds, what the masses know from long experience, that eating and drinking hold together body and soul, that the searched-for bond is nutrition.”
“Often really what you need is someone who will believe in you, who will encourage you to believe in yourself.”

Source : "News Stream" with Kristie Lu Sout, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2014.
“A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or to those who present government as the place where one feathers his own nest, [or] exchanges favors with friends and former associates.”
“Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.”

Source : Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).
“A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.”
“I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.”

You may also like:

Babe Paley
Socialite
Christopher Tunnard
Architect
Dan Kiley
Landscape architect
Geoffrey Jellicoe
Architect
Gertrude Jekyll
Gardener
Iris Origo
Biographer
Nancy Lancaster
Rosemary Verey
Writer
William Walton
Composer