“There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.” FeelsFeelingsHandsWould BeDealsBrainQualityRespectGardenToolsFingersTouchingHelplessLovableJekyll Book:Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both Source: Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both
“Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats chosen for their essential and individual quality, are other whole aspects of being a gardener. Why shouldn't we? We sit in other people's gardens, why not in our own.” PeopleWholeIndividualQualityEssentialsAspectGardenPlantIndividualityChosenSeatsWhy NotGardenerPonderingSquandering Author:Mirabel Osler
“Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.” PeopleKnowsBelievePassionI BelieveQualityProduceGardenIsraelAdmireDesertPresidentialGutsPatriotismIdealismScratchesIdealism And RealismJewish National Author:Richard M. Nixon