Eden Quotes - Page 10

• In Eden I "saw" that Adam or Eve probably spoke each word FOR THE FIRST TIME and that seemed wild and seemed to me that that might have brought them to some essence of language. Once I "saw" the city, I knew it was real. once I saw that a poem was a house, i knew it was real and could go back to it or else write a flurry of poems around it, both worked.

  Gregory Orr

  Real, Writing, Essence

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they are gardeners after the Fall, lost and exposed to both the elements and the lens.

  Justine Kurland

  Fall, Perfect, Cameras

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• It's the sense of walking back into the Garden of Eden or something like that. Where suddenly everything is perfect and you see how you're connected to everything in the world.

  Larkin Grimm

  Garden, Perfect, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The myth of the dead Indian goes back to the Protestant settlement of the U.S. The Pilgrims wanted to start a new life in America. They wanted to believe that in some sense they had come to a new Eden and that they could leave history behind in Europe. So they convinced themselves that this land had no history, that this was "virgin" land. This made the Indians' presence inconvenient.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Believe, Europe, Land

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Sea, Paradise

  Twitter post from Mar 1, 2018

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• I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Thinking, People, Forget

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• When I can go just where I want to go, There is a copse of birch trees that I know; And, as in Eden Adam walked with God, When in that quiet aisle my feet have trod I have found peace among the silver trees, Known comfort in the cool kiss of the breeze Heard music in its whisper, and have known Most certainly that I was not alone!

  Andrew Greeley

  Kissing, Feet, Tree

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• We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.

  Van Jones

  Biblical, Garden, Leaving

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden, a paradise lost. We all now are so mobile, so nomadic .

  Andrew Lam

  Fall, Stories, Paradise

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Animal, Garden, Stories

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Garden, Horror Stories, Land

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• Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the hand that raised up obscenities and blasphemies. Man was the pariah-dog, the moral leper in this translucent mirror of Heaven. He was the muddier of crystal waters, the despoiler of forests, the murderer of the innocent, the challenger against God. He was the assassin of the saints and the prophets, for they spoke of what he WOULD NOT HEAR, in the darkness of his spirit!

  Taylor Caldwell

  Dog, Men, Voice

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Flower, Simple, Garden

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• O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity.

  Lord Byron

  Beautiful, Stars, Thinking

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• I was floating around in the Garden of Eden, thrilled to be a human being at the Human-Be-In, knowing the world could be saved if we loved one another. I was draped in flowers, bestowed upon me by my brothers and sisters. I was laughing, loving, breathing Princess of Peace.

  Pamela Des Barres

  Brother, Flower, Princess

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• I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Stupid, World, Today

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven

  Augustine Birrell

  Book, Heaven

  Augustine Birrell (1922). “The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”

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• It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Garden, Apples, Tree

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• The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron -- and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring -- embody the American dream of Eden.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Dream, Blessed, Track

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• If 'why' was the first and last question, then because I was curious to see what would happen was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.

  John Connolly

  Life, Men, Garden

  John Connolly (2015). “Night Music: Nocturnes”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• If I was being perfectly honest, which I'm not going to be, I think the movie touches on a lot of things that we all went through... the first kiss, which was more than a first kiss for Harry [Eden], and those electrifying moments when you're a teenager that form who you are as a human being. I think those, for me, are what Baillie captured so well.

  Daniel Craig

  Teenager, Kissing, Thinking

  "Flashbacks Of A Fool - Daniel Craig interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Eden Hazard is a great player. He has
  magic

  Frank Lampard

  Player, Magic, Hazards

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• If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up in the gutter of a deserted warehouse, or in a heap of frozen cabbages becoming luminous in the reflected light of roadside snow.

  Helen Dunmore

  Life, Garden, Light

  Helen Dunmore (1988). “The Raw Garden”, Dufour Editions

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• I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!

  Catharine Sedgwick

  Children, Writing, Space

  Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1872). “Life and Letters of Catherine M. Sedgwick”, p.405

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• Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden

  D.T. Suzuki

  Heart, Eye, Men

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