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"As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It is like planting a garden. You do not cause the seeds to grow. To grow is their natural purpose in life."
"My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece"
"I think people should maybe just go out into the garden and watch a ladybug crawl across a flower and relax their mind. That's about all you need to know about life, I think."
"One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings."
"If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden."
"Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year."
"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."
"Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the workers are compelled to accept any piece wages offered to them, because otherwise they would get nothing at all, and they could not live from the products of their small-scale agriculture alone, and because, on the other hand, it is just this agriculture and landownership which chains them to the spot and prevents them from looking around for other employment."
"I want death to find me planting my cabbages."
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living."
"And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’ Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower, But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love, And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. * People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees."
"Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes."
"Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings."
"In the woods we return to reason and faith."
"There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street."
"Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden."
"In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it."
"I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy."
"Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness."
"There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week."
