"Gardening is full of mistakes, almost all of them pleasant and some of them actually instructive."

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Source : Henry Mitchell (1999). “One Man's Garden”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Henry Mitchell

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“If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.”
“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.”
“Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: â€œWhen you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.”
“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse- the blessing if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today; the curse if you disobey the commands of the LORD your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.”
“Saying you're a pop group isn't saying very much. Personally, when I think of pop, I think of instant, accessible, catchy songs - I definitely identify our music as that. I think that by writing pop, or instant, accessible or hopefully catchy music, it shoes you into bigger audiences because it seems that more people like that music. I think the possibilities are endless if you stick to a simplistic short song; the music can be as wild and bizarre as you want it to be, as long as at the core of it, there's something really strong.”

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“There was earth inside them, and they dug.”

Source : Paul Celan, Michael Hamburger (1972). “Nineteen poems”
“The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.”
“Time keeps on... slippin'... slippin'... slippin' into the future.”

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