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“It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist fundamentalism (which, like all fundamentalisms, imagines that in fact it represents the side of reason and truth); but it is also true that the new atheism has sprung up in a garden of contending fundamentalisms.”

Reason Facts Sides Deals Imagine Atheism Garden Imagine That Rhetoric Fundamentalism Sprung Contending Sprung Up

Author:David Bentley

“It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”

Humans Play Might Earth Life Is Heaven Deals Objects Highest Garden Tasks Praise Human Life Playgrounds

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have enjoyed would with all their hearts have been glad to have been rid of. 'Tis just like a summer birdcage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.”

Heart Has Beens Age Three Fear Justice Deals Four Despair Summer Bird Garden Glad Enjoyed Consumption Pursued

Author:John Webster

“There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.”

Feels Feelings Hands Would Be Deals Brain Quality Respect Garden Tools Fingers Touching Helpless Lovable Jekyll

Book:Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both

Source: Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both

“We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?”

Enough Time Deals Learning Garden Chaos Simplicity Urgent Eco

Author:Wendell Berry

“Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons."”

“Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish.”

Ifs Want Love Hard Care Age Remember Love Is Deals Hard Work Commitment Garden Seeds Weed Dedication Handful Ruthless Love And Care

Author:Barbara Taylor Bradford

“Th-there," she sobbed. "it dragged him to the Italian gardens. He managed to elude its maw at first, but it harried him through the paths. No matter how much I screamed, it would not put him d-down!" She burst into a fresh wave of tears. "You screamed," will said. "Is that all you did?" "I screamed a great deal,." Tatiana sounded injured. She drew fully away from Will and fixed him with a green gaze. "I see you are as ungenerous as you ever were.”

Firsts Said Matter Deals Path Tears Garden Green Wave Fixed Italian Injured Elude

Author:Cassandra Clare

“People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things.”