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“History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle, ... emptiness running down steps toward the garden, nobody's place in line.”

World War Running Lines Numbers Steps History Thousand Garden Empty Remains Rounds War Of The Worlds Emptiness World War Ii Holocaust Imaginary World War I Cradle Skeletons Embryos

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains.”

Book Beautiful Remember Forever Dad Garden Remains My Dad Smell Chemistry Shed Ever After

Author:Beth Orton

“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.”

Care Earth Nature Responsibility Garden Remains Environmental Ancient Worthy Cherish Renewal

Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.”

Earth Nature Environment Survival Garden Remains Environmental Cherish Ecology Renewal Gardener Planet Earth Earth Day Earth And Nature Eco Friendly Garden Love Inspirational Environmental Earth Friendly

Author:Wendell Berry

“I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.”

Life Earth Spirit Religion Spirituality Broken Garden Remains Gardening Swear

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)

“Our intentions - noticed or unnoticed, gross or subtle contribute either to our suffering or to our happiness. Intentions are sometimes called seeds. The garden you grow depends on the seeds you plant and water. Long after a deed is done, the trace or momentum of the intention behind it remains as a seed, conditioning our future happiness or unhappiness.”

Source: The Issue at Hand

“Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.' ... he... felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness... like a gush of warm water... All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil.”

Heart Made Earth Felt Water My Own Taught Eating Garden Flow Remains Warm Soil Labour Yield Gardening Thankfulness Eating Food All That Remains

Author:J. M. Coetzee