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“[Petunias are] as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress.”

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Eleanor Perenyi was a Hungarian-born American author renowned for her memoirs and travel writing. Born on January 4, 1918, in Budapest, she spent a significant part of her life in the United States. Her writing frequently reflected her experiences as a woman of Eastern European descent living in America, examining themes of identity, culture, and the intricacies of human connections. more

“I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than those I - well, I wouldn't say prayed over, but pleaded with, cajoled. A rhododendron that hadn't bloomed for six years was flatly told it would be removed the following year if there were no flowers. Need I say that it has bloomed profusely ever since?”

Ifs Needs Years Wells Would Be Flower Six Plant Following Conclusion Gardening Threatened

Author:Eleanor Perenyi

“Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy.”

Facts Faces Certain Dies Plant Temptation Suspects Annoying Gardening Sooner Or Later Gardener

Author:Eleanor Perenyi

“Americans resent the vagaries of weather to a degree unknown to other peoples. ... Weather is a force we have lost touch with. We feel entitled to dominate it, like everything else in the environment, and when we can't are more panic-stricken than primitives who know that when nature is out of control they can only pray to the gods.”

Knows Feels Lost Force United States Environment Praying Degrees Weather Panic Entitled Resent

Author:Eleanor Perenyi

“What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.”

Fun Decision Casts Favors Officials Engagement Plunge Ballots

Author:Wavy Gravy

“We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory.”

Men Has Beens Flower Holy Glory Roots Plant Scripture Graves Buried Fading Holy Scriptures Dishonor Emblems

Author:John Evelyn

“God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight.”

Different Wonder Flower Bible Delight Disposition Indulgence

Author:James Hervey

“Religion gives a dignity to distress.”

Giving Religion Dignity Distress

Book:Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author

Source: Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author

“The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it wafts into our ports the harvests of every climate, and renders our island the centre of traffic, but also as it secures us from foreign invasion by a sort of impregnable intrenchment.”

Kind Nations Ocean England Trade Climate Islands Vehicle Traffic Centre Harvest Invasion Port

Book:Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author

Source: Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author

“The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.”

Heaven Sky Praise Makers Magnificent Deities Eloquent

Book:Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]

Source: Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]

“Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.”

Knows Doe Stills Wisdom Wise Mortals Thee Assured Uneasy Multiplicity

Book:Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author

Source: Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author

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