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“I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark. Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.”

Source: The Inward Garden: Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning

“In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.”

Littles Dream Found Garden Woods Enchanted

Book:The Cthulhu Tome

Source: The Cthulhu Tome

“On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.”

World Way Firsts Earth Night Found Heaven Christ Wonder Creation Garden Stones Empty Thirds Died Graves Evening Dawn Gardener Semblance New Earth Daybreak

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.”

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“The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico.”

Night Found Sleep White Tree Dog Sorrow Eternal Garden Dawn Apples Mexico Wire All Night Fowl Moaning Drumming Telegraph Apple Trees Never Sleep Pariahs

Book:Under the Volcano: A Novel

Source: Under the Volcano: A Novel

“In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and killed a dog. This is the only known canine fatality caused by a cosmic object. Improbably though this encounter was already, its truly extraordinary nature was revealed only decades later when scientists found that the culprit was not a common-or-garden meteorite, but a piece of the planet Mars.”

Source: The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life

“Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.”

Kind Has Beens Ends Enough Remember Found Acting Atheism Garden Positive Atheism Circles Spots Infant Joining Cabbage

Book:The Unnamable

Source: The Unnamable

“I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.”

“I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens.”

“I've always found that fashion is, first of all, mainly for yourself. So my two icons are, on one side, Little Edie from 'Grey Gardens' and, of course, like all my generation, I'm influenced by Kate Moss.”

Firsts Littles Two Courses Found Sides Generations Fashion Garden Grey Icons My Generation Kate Moss

Author:Lou Doillon

“If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.”

“[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.”

Writing Kind Littles Real Done Found Space Photography Bird Garden Dresses All Kinds Tenderness Mixing Acts Of Love

Author:Annette Messager

“What won't work - what can't work - is to act like the last years never happened, and that the survival of the [mass media] industry will be found by hiding content behind walled gardens. Instead of sticking their finger in the dike, trying to hold back the flow of innovation, companies need to ride the rapids of progress and seize the opportunities it provides.”

Needs Trying Years Lasts Found Opportunity Behinds Company Progress Happened Media Industry Survival Mass Garden Flow Innovation Fingers Hiding Last Year Rapids Mass Media

Author:Arianna Huffington

“I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit the town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.”

Source: The Garden of Ignorance: The Experiences of a Woman in a Garden

“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”

Mother Found My Own Discovery Garden Parenting Self Discovery Gardening Gardening And God Pulling Weeds

Author:Alice Walker

“My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.”

World May Problem Beautiful Faces Passion Found Garden Strikes Selfish Overwhelming Gardening My Passion Resignation Microcosm Candide

Author:Andrew Weil

“People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”

People Looks Heart Littles Said Eye Courses Found Grows Water Five Thousand Garden Blind Rose Where You Live Single Rose

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Peter stood, cleared his throat, and began to hum softly, then sing, slowly building up the song as his voice cleared. He found the old tune, the song of the Sunbird. And as he sung, as his rich voice echoed off the tall cliffs, the birds and the faeries lent him their voice and soon the tune drifted throughtout the garden.”

Song Found Voice Rich Building Bird Garden Tunes Tall Throat Peter Cliffs Faerie Building Up

Author:Brom

“But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.”

Should Heart Lasts Found Cities Doors Wall Lows Garden Window Curiosity Grey Apprehension Overlooked Enchanted Searching For Love Brideshead Revisited

Book:Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

“And then he was kissing her, and she was struck by his nearness, his solidity, his smell. It was of the garden and the earth and the sun. When Cassandra opened her eyes, she realized she was crying. She wasn't sad, though, these were the tears of being found, of having come home after a long time away.”

Long Home Eye Earth Found Sun Cry Tears Kissing Long Time Garden Smell Coming Home Her Eyes Time Away Solidity Kissing Her

Book:The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

“A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna”

Joy Found Simple Garden Meant To Be Simple Living

Author:Rumer Godden

“It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."”

Ifs Done Would Be Earth Suffering Asks Found Heaven Lord Teach Garden Eternity Saint Delight Gods Will Sand Weed Our Lord Seashore Thy Will Be Done

Book:Uniformity with God's Will

Source: Uniformity with God's Will

“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've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.”

People Littles Two Used Found Literature House Dog Garden Two Dogs

Book:R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

Source: R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)