Best garden & path Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Cultivate your garden Do not depend upon teachers to educate you follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.”

Way Said Ends Hard Joy Individual Path Teacher Impossible Depends Garden Harmony Curiosity Pursue Educate Elsewhere Bent Express Yourself Pilgrim

Author:Will Durant

“The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea is amusing and enticing; but whether the Almighty is laughing at it and is leading me up the garden path -- that I cannot know.”

Knows Should Ideas Body Light Energy Principles Laughing Path Demand Mass Garden Direct Connections Almighty Equations Amusing Transfers Relativity Leading Me Enticing

Author:Albert Einstein

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”

“There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.”

World Writing Self Path Garden Various Critical Crafts Royal Jungle Neat Good Writing

Author:Jessamyn West

“I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit the town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.”

Source: The Garden of Ignorance: The Experiences of a Woman in a Garden

“If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn, and were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man's soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.”

Ifs Men Looks Soul Would Be Lost Left Sides Path Middle Garden Lays Rounds Corners Neighbor Originality Fence Lawns

Author:Quentin Crisp

“The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.”

Bigs Girl Path Degrees Garden Stones Sight Breaths Caught Soil Pretty Girl Fingernails Warp

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion.”

Ends Earth Speak Walks Poor Path Pieces Dying Emotional Wall Garden Rounds Commit Meals Boredom Infant Exquisite Silk Breeding Parades Robes Filthy Sturdy Anaemia

Author:Ezra Pound

“When you reach the little house, the place your journey started, you will recognize it, although it will seem much smaller than you remember. Walk up the path, and through the garden gate you never saw before but once. And then go home. Or make a home. And rest.”

Littles Home Seems Remember House Walks Path Saws Journey Garden Gates

Book:Fragile Things

Source: Fragile Things

“Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as i pass. sweet tulips nod their heads in rest; i kneel in prayer to seek gods best. for round my garden a fence stands firm to guard my heart so i can learn who should enter, and who should wait on the other side of my locked gate. i clasp the key around my neck and wonder if the time is yet. if i unlocked the gate today, would you come in? or run away?”

“My life had taken a stranger turn than I could've ever imagined. What was I doing on this path? Where was I headed really? Who was I to take on a battle between powers I didn't understand— armed with a runaway cat, a uniquely bad drummer, a pair of garden shears, and an Ovaltine-drinking teen Galileo? To save a girl who didn't want to be saved?”

Want Turns Girl Path Taken Battle Garden Cat Drinking Stranger Saved Pairs Drummer Runaway Shears

Author:Kami Garcia

“Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of travel! She would pretend disgust, but the dog's paw was a wonder: the smell of it never suggested dirt. It's a cathedral! her father had said, so-and-so's garden, that field of grasses, a walk through cyclamen--a concentration of hints of all the paths the animal had taken during the day.”

Ifs World Said Hands Father House Walks Animal Wonder Path Taken Dog Fields Taught Garden Skins Smell Grass Concentration Disgusting Dirt Hints Cathedrals Paws Rumours Bouquets Brandy

Book:The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea. Everything was romantic in my imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.”

“But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake, Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road A gateless garden, and an open path: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.”

World Heart Long Stills Eye White Path Feet Fields Mines Flower My Heart Garden Blue Passionate Hills Lakes Silver Broads

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.”

Knows Book Path Brother Garden Delight My Brother Do You Know Delirium Sandman

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.”

Walks Destiny Path Garden

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Th-there," she sobbed. "it dragged him to the Italian gardens. He managed to elude its maw at first, but it harried him through the paths. No matter how much I screamed, it would not put him d-down!" She burst into a fresh wave of tears. "You screamed," will said. "Is that all you did?" "I screamed a great deal,." Tatiana sounded injured. She drew fully away from Will and fixed him with a green gaze. "I see you are as ungenerous as you ever were.”

Firsts Said Matter Deals Path Tears Garden Green Wave Fixed Italian Injured Elude

Author:Cassandra Clare

“Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe that one who deeply respects his neighborhood and everyday world in which he lives will be shown the greatest of all worlds.”

World Believe Seems Might Able I Believe Path Garden Everyday Neighborhood Farms Primitive

Author:Masanobu Fukuoka

“The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to achieve the balance necessary for harmonious development... Practice the art of living in this world without losing your inner peace of mind. Follow the path of balance to reach the inner wondrous garden of Self-Realization.”

“Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen that way at all. At some point I get misled down a garden path, I get surprised by an idea that I hadn't anticipated getting, which is a little bit like being in a laboratory.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing Littles Ideas Happens Bits Path Little Bit Garden Laboratory Misled

Author:Lewis Thomas

“Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.”

Men Made Path Wonderful Broken Singing Sitting Garden England Dinner Live By Weed Shade Knives Better Man Working Life

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a space between manmade cultivation and wilderness. Look for them in the space between nurture and nature, they are to be found at all boarders and boundaries, or on the edges of water where it is neither land nor lake, neither path nor pond. They come when we are half-asleep. They come at moments when we least expect them; when our rational mind balances with the fluid irrational.”

Mind Looks Moments Found Water Space Half Path Land Balance Garden Bottom Edges Boundaries Rational Lakes Wilderness Irrational Nurture Fluid Faerie Ponds Cultivation Space Between

Author:Brian Froud

“Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions… Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth. We must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden.”

People World Way Humans Littles Done Earth Energy Born Race Path Clear Resources Garden Hopeless Weed Repetition Drains Absolutely Nothing Horde

Author:Margaret Sanger

“Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path”

Men Littles Walks Path Walking Garden Gardening Trekking Strolling Gardening And God

Book:The Lark

Source: The Lark

“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

“They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!”

Stories Shows Laughing Path Aspect Garden Impressed Fooled Jolly Good Laugh

Author:Louise Jameson

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