“Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns.” ShouldGovernmentValuesTreeMountainGardenTownsProtectionForestsParksThrownFountainGroveOrchardTimber Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.” WantGivingMeanChildrenDoePlayHomeGovernmentCitiesBehindsLordStruggleFieldsAmountGardenAll ThingsMaskOur LordLord God Author:Martin Luther
“Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.” GovernmentGardenFunctionBritainCherishAnarchy Author:Quentin Crisp
“When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.” GovernmentCitiesProudGardenStaffGoverningPoppies Author:Livy
“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.” IfsWayShouldStoriesGovernmentFoundNaturalEnvironmentLandHorrorProtectResourcesGardenShould HaveUnionsEnvironmentalBest WayIronSovietOwnershipSoviet UnionCurtainsEdenNatural ResourcesGarden Of EdenHorror StoriesIron CurtainProtect The EnvironmentOwnership Of Land Author:Malcolm Wallop
“The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers.” WayGovernmentPoliticalFatherPartyNormalGardenLet MePressesSilentAcceptedHillsSenateRepresentativesFoundingStinkCapitolCapitol HillRepresentative GovernmentFilibuster Author:Juan Williams
“I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.” ThinkingLongGovernmentCenturyGardenVirtuousAgricultureLarge Cities Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787 Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787