"This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in another place. Our job as gardeners is to try and figure this out no matter how small our allotted space might be. Discipline has to be the watchword for our controlling hands. It means not gardening without thinking of the garden as a habitat: for mice, for squirrels, for bees and wasps. For other living creatures beyond ourselves."

-- Marjorie Harris

#Jobs Quotes #Mean Quotes #Garden Quotes

“Optimists are usually inexperienced.”
“The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.”

Source : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.198, Zola Books
“A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out.”
“I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.”
“Of course I knew disco and dub from years before but I never heard such a radical new sound like house. It blew my mind!”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.”

Source : Irving Babbitt, George Andrew Panichas (1981). “Irving Babbitt, representative writings”, Univ of Nebraska Pr
“As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!”
“I heard some famous people had an anniversary, five long years together, it was Hollywood history. Now my grandma and grandpa never made no printed page, but they took the love of 57 years right to the grave.”

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