"I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn."

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Source : William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: The book of a naturalist”

William Henry Hudson

#Nature Quotes #Flower Quotes #Ivy Quotes

“I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.”
“The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.”
“I love seeing the people that I have worked with reach new career heights.”
“I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often,”
“I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.”
“Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.”
“I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.”
“The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.”

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