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• It is a good deal better to have life in Christ and God than any where else. I would rather have my life hid with Christ in God than be in Eden as Adam was. Adam might have remained in Paradise for 16,000 years, and then fallen, but if ours is hid in Christ, how safe!

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Years, Paradise

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• The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Fall, Garden

  Max Lucado (2011). “Celebrating Christmas with Jesus: An Advent Devotional”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Future, Past

  Ken Wilber (2001). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

  Thomas Sowell

  Garden, Late, Trade

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Flower, Snakes, Yellow

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• One does not imagine the presence of a dog in the Garden of Eden, for had there been, no doubt he would have given adequate protection to his mistress and saved her descendants from all subsequent trouble.

  Kate Sanborn

  Dog, Garden, Doubt

  Kate Sanborn (1916). “Educated dogs of to-day”

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• The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.

  Arthur Miller

  Photography, Garden, Perfect

  Arthur Miller (2012). “Timebends: A Life”, p.463, A&C Black

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• In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.

  Derek Walcott

  Sleep, Evil, Serpent

  Derek Walcott (2014). “Sea Grapes”, p.20, Macmillan

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• I've learned a lot about women. I think I've learned exactly how the fall of man occured in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and Adam said one day, Wow, Eve, here we are, at one with nature, at one with God, we'll never age, we'll never die, and all our dreams come true the instant that we have them. And Eve said, Yeah... it's just not enough is it?

  Bill Hicks

  Dream, Fall, Men

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• The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Garden, Negative, Cost

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• Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Real, Taken, Hatred

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• It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.

  Harold MacMillan

  Garden, People, Leaving

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• I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.

  William Blake

  Education, Moving, School

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.688, Pearson Education

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• At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Mother, Reading, Taught

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• Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.

  John Dryden

  Paradise, Sin, Lost

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2848, Delphi Classics

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• A grateful loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock and mosses.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Gratitude, Flower, Grateful

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• As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.

  Bob Dylan

  Sadness, Bird, Wicked

  Song: Gates of Eden, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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• After all, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds!

  Bettie Page

  Garden, Naked, Adam

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• Being in the nude isn't a disgrace unless you're being promiscuous about it. After all, when God created Adam and Eve, they were stark naked. And in the Garden of Eden, God was probably naked as a jaybird too!

  Bettie Page

  Garden, Naked, Adam

  FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Aug 17, 2012

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• In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.

  Tom Robbins

  Creative Collaboration, East, Firsts

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• Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Garden

  Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

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• That is certainly the point: when the human species was born, on the African savanna, life was pretty good; we could live in harmony with the rest of nature, and that's what I've been calling Eden. The only technologies that humans devised for some 2 million years were fire and the hand ax. That's all. Eden didn't need anything more

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Technology, Fire, Hands

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset or the ocean at dawn. Remember the ending of a great story. We yearn to linger, to experience it all our days. Sometimes the beauty is so deep it pierces us with longing. For what? For life as it was meant to be. Beauty reminds us of an Eden we have never known, but somehow our hearts were created for.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Ocean, Heart, Sunset

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2005). “Captivating: A Guided Journal: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.53, Thomas Nelson

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• The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden were ordained by God and were a necessary part of their-and our-earthly experience. President Howard W. Hunter, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, taught: "We came to mortal life to encounter resistance. It was part of the plan for our eternal progress. Without temptation, sickness, pain, and sorrow, there could be no goodness, virtue, appreciation for well-being, or joy."

  Daniel K Judd

  Appreciation, Pain, Writing

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• Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion.

  Heather Gudenkauf

  Sleep, Two, Lovely

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