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“Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds.”

Thinking Mind Evil Accepting Our Lives Bears Garden Plant Fruit Seeds Destructive Constructive Fertile Fertile Ground

Book:Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour

Source: Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour

“Two years ago, I was saying as I planted seeds in the garden, "I must believe in these seeds, that they fall into the earth and grow into flowers and radishes and beans." It is a miracle to me because I do not understand it. The very fact that they use glib technical phrases does not make it any less a miracle, and a miracle we all accept. Then why not accept God's miracles?”

Years Believe Doe Two Facts Use Earth Fall Grows Accepting Flower Years Ago Garden Miracle Plant Seeds Phrases Two Years Why Not Beans Two Years Ago Radishes

Author:Dorothy Day

“The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.”

Men Might Fighting Grows Accepting He Man Garden Rose Doctrine Weed Laissez Faire

Author:John Ruskin

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked higher than the pyramids; they had killed themselves over the failure to find a love none of us could ever be. In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.”

World Ends Used Girl Simple Accepting Dying Higher Drink Garden Sight Forests Torture Flaws Tire Refusal Pyramids Propeller

Book:The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.”

Men Enough Nature Natural Accepting Acceptance Men And Women Garden Suggestions Natural Environment Man And Nature Being Natural Children And Nature

Author:Antoinette Brown Blackwell

“If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.”

Ifs Pain Time Grows Accepting Acceptance Garden Plant Blow Strikes Over You Willingness Sweat Shed Bent Ache Discomfort Power Plants Aches And Pains

Author:Wendell Berry

“Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.”

Certain Attitude Accepting Acceptance Demand Garden Gardening Serenity Vegetation Dynamism Botany

Author:Gilles Clement