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“Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.”

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John Evelyn

John Evelyn was an English writer renowned for his passion for nature and horticulture. His work, 'Sylva', had a profound impact on subsequent natural literature. more

“We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.”

Problem Spirit Suffering Moral Poverty Progress Mankind Creation Bridges Abundance Contrast Technological Scientific Progress

Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny

“The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.”

Should Said Different Pieces Tree Wall Fruit Hung Extensions Covering Tapestry Fruit Trees

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

“Chemotherapy tests your sanity.”

Tests Sanity Chemotherapy

Author:Melissa Etheridge

“Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.”

Feels Humans Wells Body Window Fruit Well Being Orange Perfume Human Body Lemons Grove

Book:Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy

Source: Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy

“Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret. Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking, into the joy of its sweetest achievement.”

Way Long Joy Sleep Secret Tree Flower Achievement Fruit Leap Waking Bent Fountain Sweetest Thrust Scarce Tubes Sap Resolute Figs

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!”

Care Fruit Woe Figs

Author:John Heywood

“The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.”

Book Lost Generations Fruit Flavor Peaches Book Learning Apricots

Author:Ezra Pound

“Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved.”

Trying Looks Remember Mother Tree Garden Fruit Preserves Gates Butterfly Fence Baskets Clusters

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

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