“Because we're becoming such an urban nation, we're going to need to be producing so much more food in cities. These institutions have members, obviously. They have the resources to start projects like urban farms and gardens, teaching tools, and the ability to educate their members so that they can then go home and start their own urban gardens. I just really think that faith-based institutions can take the lead in creating community-based food systems, and I'd really like to see that happen.” ThinkingHomeAbilityTeachingGardenEducateUrban Author:Bryant Terry
“There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.” IfsTwoLastsAbilityTreeProduceBlessingGardenFruitFortunateSoilYardsAdequateForesightLast DayFruit Trees Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.” AgePoliticalOpportunityGrowthAbilityBoysTreeConditionsDevelopmentCircumstancesGardenStonesPersonal GrowthDeterminedApplesLionsInnateConstrainApple TreesStone Age Author:Jostein Gaarder
“A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us... What I am saying is that if we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy, which markets not just the produce of earth, but also the earth's ability to produce.” IfsNeedsMindPersonsHomeEarthGrowsAbilityPracticeEconomyProduceGardenFundamentalsPreservesSoilExploitsMistrustNecessary Change Author:Wendell Berry
“It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.” GrowsAbilityGrowingMissingGardenEverydayIncludingKeep GoingFadesFade AwayGarden LoveMissing Her Author:Cecelia Ahern
“Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content.” SelfMatterMomentsSpiritReligionSpiritualityAbilityCommonAwarenessGardenNo Matter WhatDisappearSeparationSensitiveCopiesGardeningTimelessMysticalViewersBrief MomentsGreat Garden Author:Ken Wilber
“Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to.” MayPrayerAbilityGrowingTreeGardenGrassEach DayGrantsCustomsGrowing Things Author:Nachman of Breslov
“Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.” HumansTurnsHuman BeingsAbilityGardenFortuneRemarkableWeedPennies Author:Jim Rohn