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“My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.”

Hands Minutes Essentials Garden Standing Grandmother Gardening Fifteen My Grandmother

Book:No nature: new and selected poems

Source: No nature: new and selected poems

“I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.”

Feels I Can Two Hours Pleasure Five Minutes Garden Gardening Five Minutes Dazed

Book:The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

Source: The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

“Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move.”

Lasts Beautiful Moving Five Week Minutes Flower Sitting Garden Rose Breathe Fence Five Minutes

Book:Letters of Celia Thaxter

Source: Letters of Celia Thaxter

“The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold”

Time Grows Minutes Cold Garden Gold Sunlight Cages Old Time

Author:Louis MacNeice

“No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].”

Matter Three Minutes Hair Garden No Matter What Ties Shed Bicycle Lords And Ladies

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender's garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me.”

Ifs Sometimes Enough Wonder Pieces Written Minutes Identity Return Bird Garden Definitions Fortunate Dictionary

Author:Mary E. Pearson

“Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who I wanted to be at last a woman in the old style sitting stout thighs apart under a big skirt grandchild sliding on off my lap a pleasant summer perspiration that's my old man across the yard he's talking to the meter reader he's telling him the world's sad story how electricity is oil or uranium and so forth I tell my grandson run over to your grandpa ask him to sit beside me for a minute I am suddenly exhausted by my desire to kiss his sweet explaining lips.”

Source: Begin Again: Poems by Gracey Paley

“Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden is probably the spot where the hopes for civilization are best captured. In fact, man defines himself by his garden. My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.”

Men World Needs Facts Hands Beautiful Minutes Civilization Garden Standing Spots Grandmother Fifteen My Grandmother Captured Colorful Beautiful World Redesign

Author:Gary Snyder

“The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.”

Light Minutes Garden Atmosphere

Author:Claude Monet

“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