“According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the royal palace but in a park, under a sala tree. He attained complete enlightenment under the bodhi tree and left this earth to enter Parinirvana, again, between three sala trees. It would seem that the Buddha was very fond of trees.” SeemsEarthThreeLeftBornTreeEnlightenmentAccountsForestsParksRoyalPalacesVery DeepDeep RelationshipRoyal Palaces Author:Dalai Lama
“I think people are always looking for gurus. It's the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It's quite terrifying. I once saw something fascinating here in New York. It must have been in the early seventies--guru time. A man used to go and sit in Central Park, wearing elaborate golden robes. He never once opened his mouth, he just sat. He'd appear at lunchtime. People appeared from everywhere, because he was obviously a holy man, and this went on for months. They just sat around him in reverent silence. Eventually he got fed up with it and left. Yes. It's as easy as that.” PeopleThinkingMenWorldHas BeensUsedLeftEasySilenceSawsNew YorkMonthsHolyMouthsGoldenSatParksFascinatingFedsSeventiesGuruRobesFed UpHoly ManCentral ParkLunchtime Author:Doris Lessing
“It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.” MindEarthFacesLeftWishWhiteSeeingSpeciesMalesParksNational Parks Author:Alan Bennett
“Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined operation left a lingering, individual spell. I naturally went to Hyde Park to hear the orators, the best of the many free entertainments on offer in the capital. I heard the purest milk of the world flowing, then as now, from the platform of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.” WorldFirstsIndividualLeftSoundPartyHeardOffersSightEntertainmentLondonOperationsParksBritainSpellsMilkPlatformsSocialistArrivalsGreat BritainLingeringOratorsHydeSight And SoundSocialist PartyHyde Park Book:Debts of Honour Source: Debts of Honour
“Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to get him the sack, so he left the gentlemen of the press with something of a void. And they abhor a void. Soon the discovery that Sven was in fact a hammer-man of legendary proportions filled the void, until the media came to realise that Sven was that rare thing, a man whose astonishing success with women somehow didn't make him more interesting.” MenEnoughFactsLeftInterestingResultsMediaFootballHeroDiscoveryFilledPressesManagersSoccerGentlemanParksProportionGood EnoughRealisingVoidHammersAstonishingChairmanLegendaryRare Things Author:Declan Lynch
“Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.” NeedsHumansLeftRoomsFunctionSpeciesParksExpensesGenesLeft AloneZoosRangersBiodiversityNational ParksZookeepers Author:Donella Meadows
“Borrow a child and get on welfare. Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child, or go to the public park with the child, and take the child to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don't talk back.” MenChildrenHouseLeftCryOfficeDressesHumbleMotherhoodWelfareParksBe HumbleYour Smile Book:Like the iris of an eye Source: Like the iris of an eye
“Some of the longest home runs I've hit, I didn't actually realize they were going that far. Everyone says, 'What does it feel like to hit the ball that far?' Actually, there's no feeling at all. I know when the ball meets the bat whether or not it's left the park. It's a nice easy thing.” KnowsFeelsDoeFeelingsHomeRunningLeftEasyRealizingNiceBallsParksBatsHome RunEasy Things Author:Mark McGwire