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“It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.”

Thinking Trying Lying Night Darkness Air Mines Quiet Garden Window Police Spread Russia Delicious Glimpse Spy Nightingales Restful

Author:Maxim Gorky

“The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.”

Light Lying Garden Forests Lakes Finest Meadows Glaciers

Book:Our National Parks

Source: Our National Parks

“If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.”

Ifs Years Doe Lying Given Pay Land Conditions Fields Produce Products Return Garden Plant Owners Gardener

Author:Hammurabi

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”

“Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, glide along fence tops, and slink under benches.”

Years Lying Animal Behinds Taught Garden Cat Fence Benches Gnome Azaleas

Book:Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology

Source: Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology

“All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.”

Men Humans Children Form Lying House Secret Divine Garden Proportion Honour Reverence Men Women Divine Beauty

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot