"Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts."

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Source : Tom Turner (2005). “Garden History: Philosophy and Design, 2000 BC--2000 AD”, p.4, Taylor & Francis

Tom Turner

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“Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience”
“In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.”
“Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.”
“Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.”
“I have the highest number of Social Security recipients of any Member of Congress, and it is always good to hear about how women in their districts are affected by any changes, by the need for changes in Social Security.”
“No matter how much work a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.”
“There's no soul in perfection.”
“In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.”

Source : Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

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