“I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.” SportsKnownFansTaughtGardenCookingGardeningSports Fan Author:Thalassa Cruso
“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.” LittlesFoundCommonKnownPiecesSkyRocksDogEventsObjectsPlanetsSceneGardenScientistTownsExtraordinaryDecadesAstronomyEncountersRemarkableCosmicMarsEgyptChunksCanineLittle TownsFatalityCulprit Book:The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life Source: The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life
“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.” FirstsChildrenHas BeensLastsMotherTimeForceMemoriesSleepBehindsKnownEventsMovementReturnGardenBrilliantMourningProphecyReconciliationSpineRibsExpulsion Author:Marilynne Robinson
“John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.” WorldWarHelpingHomeYoungFatherKnownGardenTownsWar Of The WorldsInjuryWorld War IDeafDeafness Author:Bill Dedman
“I've known Jennifer [Salke] for so long. Before I was a writer, I did garden design, and I designed Jennifer's garden, many years ago. I've known her for a really long time. So the pitch was not really about that.” YearsLongKnownDesignLong TimeYears AgoGardenJenniferReally LongGarden Design Author:Ryan T. Murphy
“We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.” ThinkingWorldShouldSaidTwoBigsBeautifulKnownFeetGardenSticksVillageFeet On The GroundGlobal Village Author:Yann Martel
“I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses, and the voice I hear falling on my ear the son of God discloses. And he walks with me, and he talks with me. And he tells me I am his own, and the joy we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known.” StillsJoyFallVoiceWalksKnownShareSonGardenEarsRoseDewWalk With Me Author:Dwight Yoakam
“The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University” WorldFormUniverseKnownTreeBloodGrewDiseaseDevilGardenUniversityAmorSeedsApplesBoresMagnificentWorld HistoryHarvardEdenGenesisDeliriumGarden Of EdenPhdsApple TreesHarvard University Author:Lauren Oliver
“In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them - the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs. If there had been one person in that garden who had not known through all his or her innermost being that if an Egg were taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end... there could have been no happiness even in that golden springtime air.” IfsWorldHeartPersonsHas BeensEndsWholeHurtSpaceKnownTakenAirTerribleHappeningsGardenRoundsWhole WorldGoldenEggsImmenseCrashCould Have BeenSpringtimeSolemnityHeart Breaking Author:Frances Hodgson Burnett
“All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.” KnowsStatesPlayDreamChristianFormCultureLostKnownAchieveConditionsGardenBaseballGreenAncientParadiseAspire Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti
“The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.” LifeFeelsEyeAmericaFriendshipKnownMillionsObjectsBenefitsGardenTreatsNeighborContactReliefFoeCrabsCrevice Author:Paul Fleischman
“For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.” MindDeathNumbersKnownTakenGreaterDyingDesignBearsGardenTombsImpermanence Author:Marie-Luise Gothein