“Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.” WorldPlayUseRealityTechnologyOffersGardenBroads Author:Jamais Cascio
“How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as we look back upon them, have grown into the well-remembered background of the places where they fell upon us! Here is some sunny garden or summer lane, beautified and canonized forever, with the flood of a great joy; and here are dim and silent places,--rooms always shadowed and dark to us, whatever they may be to others,--where distress or death came once, and since then dwells forevermore.” WellsLooksMayCountryRealityJoyDarkRoomsForeverEventsSummerGardenBasesSilentDelightBackgroundsLocalsRememberedAssociationFloodDistressSunnyLanesRecollectionGreat Joy Author:Washington Irving
“Safe Harbor is a state of mind... its the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.” MindStatesRealitySongChurchPrayerWorryTroubleSafeGardenMetaphorBeachState Of MindHarborsTimes Of TroubleSafe Harbor Author:Luanne Rice
“Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.” RealityWhiteExampleIdealsGardenPaintImperfectionRealismMudGownsSpecksWhite Gown Author:Mason Cooley
“I am extremely proud of our remarkable men and women who serve in our military, but the reality is that this is a shrinking percentage of the American population. Unfortunately, this has resulted in a growing disconnect between our military and civilian population. At one time, we had participation from nearly every American. Victory gardens, metal collections, saving stamps and bonds-everyone did their part to support our military. We simply don't do that anymore.” MenRealitySupportGrowingMilitaryProudVictoryMen And WomenGardenPopulationSavingCollectionsRemarkableOne TimeMetalsParticipationStampsPercentagesCiviliansShrinking Author:Don Young
“But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then douses their overheated ambitions with a cold spray from the garden hose of reality. If they persist, he slams them to the ground and tweaks them on the proboscis for good measure. A fortunate few break free and prosper; the others lament the day they didn't become bank clerks.” IfsRealityDesireArtistFunBreakCreationColdAmbitionGardenFortunatePersistRivalsSlamSprayLamentClerksTweakArtists And Writers Author:Rick Bayan
“That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.” RealityTrumpGardenChaosRip Author:Justina Chen
“Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.” YearsRealityGardenVarietyHomosexualAlcoholicsRumor Book:The Elementary Particles Source: The Elementary Particles
“It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in the garden, out on the fields, her face always appeared so clearly to me.” LongRealityFacesUsedHouseFieldsLong TimeGardenGrandmotherGrandparentMy GrandmotherPassed Away Author:Quang Nhuong Huynh
“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.” IfsMeanLongTwoFeelingsRealityMightFeltPowerfulMinutesSittingGardenRoseGrievingMost PowerfulMuseumsBenchesAbsorptionRodin Author:Irving Howe
“For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.” HumansDifferentRealityBeautifulReligionReligiousTreeFlowerGardenInstrumentsBranchesImperfectGodlyMajesticDifferent ReligionsBeautiful Flower Book:Gandhi on Nehru Source: Gandhi on Nehru
“Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life.” IfsWayWantLifeRealityTodayHouseEducationOur LivesAirFansStreetsCarTearsDiseaseComfortableExpectationsGardenRootsConnectedWideEducatedDesksBourgeoisieAccepting RealityAmerican Cars Book:Season of Migration to the North Source: Season of Migration to the North