“"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."” IfsMayArtReasonWould BeCryFieldsArmsPleaseEssentialsGardenAncientSpreadNobleEnthusiasmLionsGardeningEaglesLilies Author:Abraham Cowley
“I don't mind most religious people, I talk to them. I listen to them, you know, banging on. "I prayed very hard and then the fairy came." "Did he? Good. Have a biscuit." I only get annoyed when they try and make me see the fairy. "You have to let the fairy into your heart." Look, I wouldn't let him into my garden, okay? I'd shoot him on sight, if he existed, which he doesn't. Now have another biccie and be quiet, will you please?” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingMindLooksHeartHardReligiousPleaseQuietGardenSightFairyAnnoyedBangingBiscuits Author:Dylan Moran
“The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.” WorldInspirationalLightActionJoyEvilReligiousHealingDarknessHellTearsPleaseCostDiseaseHighestGardenBlueRoseSakeSmellTyrannyPityCuresLeapYellowSubmitLowestCunningJaundice Author:C. S. Lewis
“But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?” LittlesLife IsPurposeNextSpeakLanguageGreaterMiddleMonthsHigherPleaseAmbitionGardenEarsLovelyAwfulMealsBad ThingsFavouriteSunlightNext DayFountainPatchesNapsHigher Purpose Book:Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.” IfsLifeMayCareGrowsInterestLossPleasureGoneGrowing UpFlowerGratitudePleaseGayGardenAppreciationGrievingCheerFadesThankfulnessCheerfulnessFadingRefreshingJoyfulnessShrubsInterest In LifeGrieving LossGrieving A Loss Author:Maria Edgeworth
“I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.” SoulReasonEyeJoyGrowsChallengesSeeingPleaseElementsGardenPatiencePlantNostalgiaMy SoulGardeningNoveltyGardenerInspirational GardeningPlanting A GardenPlants And Life Author:David Hobson
“If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity” PeopleIfsNeedsKindHandsFormOpportunityPayPleaseGardenMurderRaisesPlantWeedFragileGreenhousesDandelions Author:Robert Fulghum