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“The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.”

Source: Mere Christianity

“My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean table in a clean room - or, on a beautiful summer day like this, one of the five tables dotted around the garden. Trash that table and move on again.”

Beautiful Moving Rooms Principles Five Habit Summer Garden Tables Clean Mess Virgins Trash Unbearable Summer Days Days Like This

Author:Richard Dawkins

“The garden rose may richly bloom In cultured soil and genial air, To cloud the light of Fashion's room Or droop in Beauty's midnight hair, In lonelier grace, to sun and dew The sweetbrier on the hillside shows Its single leaf and fainter hue, Untrained and wildly free, yet still a sister rose!”

May Stills Shows Light Rooms Sun Grace Air Fashion Hair Garden Rose Clouds Soil Leafs Midnight Dew Hue

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.”

Ifs Long Felt Space Rooms Wonder Flower Sitting Garden Japan Boots Blooming Hovering Blooming Flower Dragonflies

Author:Mark Tobey

“Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.”

Made Play Facts Rooms Class Practice Four Fields Building Taught Source Wall Garden Direct Obvious Rational Museums Application Workshops Nursery Formality Four Walls

Author:Robert Owen

“I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.”

“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.”

Wells Looks May Country Reality Joy Dark Rooms Forever Events Summer Garden Bases Silent Delight Backgrounds Locals Remembered Association Flood Distress Sunny Lanes Recollection Great Joy

Author:Washington Irving

“In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.”

Sometimes Whole Opportunity House Rooms Views Design Building Garden Architecture Dramatic Epic Maintaining Exhibits Subordination

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the city is the garden. And the favela is the back yard where they throw the garbage.”

Way Rooms Cities Poverty Office Garden Governors Yards Garbage Palaces Living Room Mayors Dining Dining Rooms Favelas

Book:Beyond All Pity

Source: Beyond All Pity

“As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.”

Writing Humans Bits Human Beings Pleasure Rooms Stupid Creating Garden Piano Tunes Digital Sheer Organisms Recipes Inventing Composing Chili

Author:Gary Hamel

“Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.”

Life Stills Play Seems Faces Night Rooms Shadow Garden Tricks Gravel New Faces

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.”

Trying Looks Remember Moving Rooms Middle Paper Garden Window Embrace Staring Pace Papers Fingertips

Author:Tom Hodgkinson