"I am one of the people who love the why of things."

-- Catherine the Great

“Gardening is a long road, with many detours and way stations, and here we all are at one point or another. It's not a question of superior or inferior taste, merely a question of which detour we are on at the moment. Getting there (as they say) is not important; the wandering about in the wilderness or in the olive groves or in the bayous is the whole point.”

Source : Henry Mitchell (2014). “Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.”

Source : Tracy Chevalier (1999). “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, E P Dutton
“Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways.”
“Entertainment is not politically neutral.”

Source : John Lahr (1982). “Coward, the Playwright”, p.103, Univ of California Press
“Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.”
“This is the gospel of labour, ring it, ye bells of the kirk! The Lord of Love came down from above, to live with the men who work. This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-curst soil: Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.”
“There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.”

Source : Neal Bascomb (2005). “The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Whoâ€™s gonna make you happy when youâ€™re your own worst enemy?”

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