“For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum of horticultural wisdom and practical advice, Our Life in Gardens is at once literate, learned, sensible, and, often, sheer luscious poetry. There are delights to be sampled on every page. From a cultivated life, they have brought forth, once again, a cultivated book.” YearsHas BeensBookResultsOur LivesAdvicePagesGardenExtraordinaryDelightPracticalsMemoirThirtySensibleGardeningSheerThirty YearsWayneLegendary Author:Philip Gambone
“These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!” MenLifeFirstsShowsHandsHeavenLinesSunChangedTaughtKingsLessonsPagesGardenLaborLettersGreenHungerDeedsGoldenSoilImmortalScholarToilPeasantsCharterSturdy Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“I cut a lot of cringy sex stuff and a lot of stuff I thought was too personal. I think secret gardens are very special. I think we all have to have them. I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.” ThinkingSexStuffSecretCuttingShareSpecialPagesGardenValuableMemoirSecret Garden Author:Damian Barr
“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.” BookEndsMatterLightActionCoursesReadingDifficultFindingsPagesGardenTalesGoldenGrassChaptersAprilHappy EndingsSunnyOctober Author:Neil Gaiman
“They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in God's gardens they keep still, like many, many intervals in his might and melody. Only when they spread their wings are they wakers of a wind: as if God with his broad sculptor- hands leafed through the pages in the dark book of the beginning.” IfsStillsBookSoulSometimesDreamHandsMightDarkSinWindPagesMouthsGardenLongingTiredWingsSpreadMelodyBroadsIntervalsSculptorsSeamless Book:The Book of Images Source: The Book of Images
“A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.” ShouldBookHandsTurnsEnjoyColorFitPagesGardenRootsSeasonsRoseSentencesStemPetals Book:A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm Source: A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm
“How could you not know?" His voice was full of wonderment. "You changed me utterly. You were like a...like a bright, wonderful bloom in a garden full of weeds. Like a graceful capital on a page of plain script, a letter decorated with the deepest, finest colors in all Erin. Like a flame, Caitrin. Like a song.” KnowsSongVoiceWonderfulChangedColorPagesGardenLettersScriptsFlamesWeedFinestYou ChangedErin Author:Juliet Marillier
“listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in the next room? not here, not there: you hear them in another time that is now, listen to the footsteps of time, inventor of places with no weight, nowhere, listen to the rain running over the terrace, the night is now more night in the grove, lightning has nestled among the leaves, a restless garden adrift-go in, your shadow covers this page.” YearsMomentsRunningNightNextRoomsReturnPagesShadowRainGardenWeightLightningRestlessInventorFootstepsListen To MeGroveAnother TimeAdriftTerrace Author:Octavio Paz
“I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the book. You should read by electric light, the room in shadow, and only the page lit up.” ShouldTwoBookLightRoomsPagesShadowGardenBeachElectricLitElectric Light Author:Marguerite Duras
“I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.” WritingTwoLastsLiteratureHouseHoursInterestingGoneCrazyPagesGardenBoardsWeed Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
“Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.” BookEndsBigsLastsTurnsPagesGardenSurpriseBeastTypicalTwistsTwists And TurnsBig Surprises Author:Jeffery Deaver