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“If you believe in the existence of fairies at the bottom of the garden you are deemed fit for the bin. If you believe in parthenogenesis, ascension, transubstantiation and all the rest of it you are deemed fit to govern the country.”

Ifs Believe Country Existence Fit Garden Bottom Fairy If You Believe Ascension Transubstantiation

Author:Jonathan Meades

“I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.”

Reading Gone Tree Sitting Garden Bottom Silver Exotic Birch Trees

Author:Geri Halliwell

“The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind.”

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.”

Class Humility Garden Bottom Educational Scholar Gardening Gardener Blunders Gardening And God Inspirational Gardening

Book:The Garden That I Love

Source: The Garden That I Love

“If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.”

Ifs Draws Garden Bottom Curtains Everton

Author:Bill Shankly

“As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic.”

Knows Littles Taken Nice Creating Shadow Garden Strategy Climate Bottom Panic Refuge Listeners Ponds

Author:J. K. Rowling

“In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be.”

“So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”

“What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go and dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing exept his skeleton left. And in 1,000 years even his skeleton will be gone. But that is all right because he is a part of the flowers and the apple tree and the hawthorn bush now.”

Ifs Years Body Happens Earth Dies Left Brain Gone Tree Flower Broken Garden Died Plant Bottom Your Body Apples Buried Worms Rabbits Molecules Skeletons Broken Down Apple Trees

Author:Mark Haddon

“Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I - or rather the blessed Not-I - cared to look at.”

Looks Body Spirit Religion Spirituality Courses Vision Seeing Flower Garden Blessed Bottom Awe Dharma

Book:The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

Source: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

“Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a space between manmade cultivation and wilderness. Look for them in the space between nurture and nature, they are to be found at all boarders and boundaries, or on the edges of water where it is neither land nor lake, neither path nor pond. They come when we are half-asleep. They come at moments when we least expect them; when our rational mind balances with the fluid irrational.”

Mind Looks Moments Found Water Space Half Path Land Balance Garden Bottom Edges Boundaries Rational Lakes Wilderness Irrational Nurture Fluid Faerie Ponds Cultivation Space Between

Author:Brian Froud

“I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden”

Garden Bottom Fairy Agnostic

Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!”

Years Firsts Film Too Much Garden Bottom Tiny Plenty Cottages Fridges

Author:Nigel Dennis