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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
Garden

"To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play."

Spiritual Garden Loneliness
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John Smith Politician
Garden

"Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now."

Spiritual Garden Hunting
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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
Garden

"The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced in the pages of these volumes-including that of our contemporary biological view, which becomes an effective mythic image the moment we recognize its own inner mystery. By the same magic, every god that is dead can be conjured again to life, as any fragment of rock from a hillside, set respectfully in a garden, will arrest the eye."

Eye Simple Garden
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Garden

"How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know."

Art Life Garden
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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic
Garden

"Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time."

Men Kings Garden
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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
Garden

"I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes."

Two Garden Hours
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William Blake Poet, Painter
Garden

"And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')"

Joy Black Garden
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Van Morrison Singer-Songwriter
Garden

"The summer breeze was blowing on your face Within your violet you treasure your summery words And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden"

Nature Summer Garden
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Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Garden

"Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."

Flower College Garden
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Garden

"When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands."

Nature Garden Health
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Garden

"Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm."

Garden Rivers Winter
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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
Garden

"Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck."

Dark House Garden
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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Garden

"Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!"

Garden Athlete Nike
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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
Garden

"As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic."

Taken Nice Garden
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