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“Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.”

Men Mind Values Garden Labor Robots Eden Without Love Garden Of Eden

Author:John Galt

“I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light in my garden below would be better off. I know that God values them no less than I do. So when I plant in spring I also hope to taste of God in fruit of summer sun and sight of feathered friends.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Light Would Be Values Sun Air Taste Summer Spring Bird Garden Sight Plant Fruit Better Off Summer Sun

Book:Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening

Source: Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening

“I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values.”

Should Believe Art Spiritual Used Values House I Believe Design Fine Taste Garden Architect Inclination Fine Arts Spiritual Values

Author:Luis Barragan

“Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns.”

Should Government Values Tree Mountain Garden Towns Protection Forests Parks Thrown Fountain Grove Orchard Timber

Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

“One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.”

Humans Important Feelings Night Certain Values Knowledge Heard Ignorance Flower Understood Garden Direct Strikes Mood Dramatic Poetic Leafs Meadows Prodigies Imbecility Dazed

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.”

Way Values Enemy Pieces Creation Painting Goes On Garden Passing Passings Useless Sculpture Gardener Parting Time Passing Slippery Time Passes Time Goes On Countdown

Book:My Garden (Book)

Source: My Garden (Book)

“In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden and they abandon their values.”

People Looks Past Beautiful Values Asks House Laughing Rich Car Style Garden Abandon Rich People

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.”

Giving Values Song Animal Environment Bird Garden Fruit Cherries Blackbirds Bird Watching Bird Song

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textbook I read by myself, without people - Leafless, savage medical book, A problem book of gigantic radicals.”

People Book Self Problem Values Causes Space Walks Tears Garden Medical Radical Stability Infinity Savages Comprehension Seeming Textbooks

Author:Osip Mandelstam

“To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”

Life Years Joy Values Garden Divides Mistaken Adam And Eve

Author:Mark Twain

“The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.”

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.”

Writing Values Nature Company Tree Garden Breakfast Dine

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual that makes every participant feel good. We may not rationalize this at the time, but it gives us a sense of place in our common community and our time in the tides of life on earth. This is a way to value beer and treat it with respect.”

“When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us”

Past Political Artist Values Social Century Ideals Garden Finished Gardening Representation 20th Century Sculpture 18th Century Social Values Finished Work

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings