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“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

“As for garden photographers, how differently they see things. With what ease the camera seems to compose a picture of great beauty with its discriminating lens. The naked eye can't censor some ugly sight on the periphery of vision; the photographer takes the perfect shot and picks for us just what we need to see.”

Needs Seems Eye Justice Perfect Beauty Vision Seeing Picks Shots Garden Sight Cameras Photographer Ugly Naked Ease Lenses Periphery Naked Eyes

Book:A Gentle Plea for Chaos

Source: A Gentle Plea for Chaos

“In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.”

People World Way Causes Justice Effects Garden Labor Rewards Make Sense Gardening Extensions Cause And Effect

Author:Andrew Weil

“We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”

Source: Essays, lectures and orations

“I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.”

Ifs Justice Garden Social Justice Save Me

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism.”

Ifs Doe Grows Justice Flower Diversity Garden Social Justice Nationalism Internationalism

Author:Sukarno

“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.”

“Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.”

Death Dies Justice Dying Garden Gardening Gardener Impermanence Spades

Author:Herbert V. Prochnow