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“It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.”

Ifs Way Said Seems Fall Lord Garden Forgiving Paradise Civilized Adam Boundless Eden Adam And Eve Garden Of Eden Exasperation

Book:Diane Arbus: revelations

Source: Diane Arbus: revelations

“You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is the sole purpose of existence on this planet Earth. You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.”

Ifs Earth Pain Beautiful Death Purpose Opportunity Given Grows Loss Existence Planets Flower Garden Sick Sand Iron Hardship Temper Sole Planet Earth Flower Garden Beautiful Flower

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.”

Ifs Want Would Be Wanted Flower Red Garden Rose Individuality Selfish Red Rose Not Selfish

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids.”

Ifs Children Action Pain Life Is Courses Parent Roles Magic Development Band Protect Garden Rose Aids Attempting Child Development Rose Garden Band Aid

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.”

“I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.”

Ifs Tree Garden Plant Gardening Grandchildren Back Again Fish Tanks

Author:Michael Fish

“I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of roses. Pink roses. Suddenly I felt the most powerful feeling of peace, and I had the thought that death, if it means an absorption into a reality like the one that was before me, might be all right.”

Ifs Mean Long Two Feelings Reality Might Felt Powerful Minutes Sitting Garden Rose Grieving Most Powerful Museums Benches Absorption Rodin

Author:Irving Howe

“A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.”

“If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.”

Ifs World Mean Whole Earth Alive Creation Garden New World Fountain Jewels Labyrinth Precious Jewels

Author:Teresa of Avila

“What can my enemies do to me? I have in my breast both my Heaven and my Garden. If I travel they are with me, and they never leave me. Imprisonment for me is a religious retreat [khalwa]. To be slain for me is martyrdom [shahada] And to be exiled from my land is a spiritual journey [siyaha].”

Ifs Wisdom Spiritual Heaven Religious Enemy Journey Land Garden Islamic Breasts Retreat Leaving Me Martyrdom Imprisonment Spiritual Journey Never Leave Me

Author:Ibn Taymiyyah

“Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden.”

Ifs Way Care Tree Garden Plant Expensive Extravagant

Author:Elisabeth Murdoch

“Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the loss of the world of senses is possible, I shall grieve for no person however once agonisingly desired and passionately beloved, for no emotional adventure however uplifting, for no success however warming, no infamy however exhilarating, for nothing half so much as I shall grieve to the loss of the earth itself, the soil, the seeds, the plants, the very weeds... It is a love almost overriding my love the words that could express that love.”

Ifs World Persons Earth Loss Pleasure Half Emotional Adventure Garden Plant Seeds Senses Uplifting Beloved Grieving Soil Dimensions Weed After Death Exhilarating Infamy

Author:Hal Porter

“Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side.”

Ifs Feels Sides Middle Garden Wide Subtle Thread Spiders

Book:The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces

Source: The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces

“... store of bees, in a dry and warme bee-house, comely made of fir boards, to sing, and sit, and feede upon your flowers and sprouts, make a pleasant noyse and sight. For cleanly and innocent bees, of all other things, love and become, and thrive in your orchard. If they thrive (as they must needs if your gardiner be skilfull, and love them: for they love their friends and hate none but their enemies) they will besides the pleasure, yeeld great profit, to pay him his wages; yea the increase of twenty stock of stools with other bees, will keep your orchard.”

Source: A new orchard & garden: or, The best way for planting, graffing, and to make any ground good for a rich orchard: particularly in the north, and generally for the whole commonwealth, as in nature, reason, situation, and all probability, may and doth appear. With the country house-wifes garden for herbs of common use. Their virtues, seasons, ornaments, variety of knots, models for trees, and plots, for the best ordering of grounds and walks. As also the husbandry of bees, with their several uses and annoyances: all being the experience of forty eight years labour

“Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.”

Ifs Love Life Needs Giving Nature Flower Garden Ecstasy Receiving Bees Fountain Messengers Giving And Receiving Give And Take Honey Bee Bees And Honey

Author:Khalil Gibran

“If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.”

Ifs Wells Long Garden Plant Weed

Author:Davies Gilbert

“If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.”

Ifs Needs Grace Garden Library Translations

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Take life as it comes and death as it comes. Death is really beautiful; if it were a bad thing, God would not let it happen to us. It is really freedom, an entry into another, higher life. We must utilize this life in order to realize the life beyond this one. Beyond this earth garden is the infinite land wherein we meet those whom we have thought lost. Although we must not seek death, when it comes we should know that it is the final examination for a great reward.”

Ifs Knows Should Happens Earth Beautiful Death Order Lost Realizing Land Higher Garden Infinite Rewards Finals This Life Bad Things Examination Entry Really Beautiful Great Reward

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.”

Ifs World Children Book Secret Photography Picks Garden Photographer My Favorite Single Word Favorite Book Secret Garden

Author:Joyce Tenneson

“I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but the president doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, 'low gas.'”

Ifs Thinking President Magic Lows Garden Rose Brilliant Statements Gas Wands Magic Wands Rose Garden

Author:George W. Bush

“Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life.”

Source: Season of Migration to the North

“I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.”

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

“But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life”

Ifs Men Opportunity House Healthy Garden Gardening Surroundings Family Life Happy Family Gardening And God

Author:George Cadbury

“If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.”

Ifs Made Country Policy Garden Prosperity British Kitchen Cheap Food

Author:Eamon de Valera

“If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.”

Ifs Path Garden Empowering

Author:Fran Drescher