Educational Quotes - Page 34

• The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

  Robert Ballard

  Discovery, Exploration, Archaeology

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• The essence of education is the education of the body.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.137

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• Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

  Henry Mitchell

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.41, Indiana University Press

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• Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Time, Moving

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• If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and ignore the connections is to destroy the tree.

  Wendell Berry

  Tree, Connections, Division

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• Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

  John Evelyn

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  John Evelyn (1729). “Silva: or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions”

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• God is in the details.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  God, Learning, Diversity

  Quoted in Architectural Forum, May 1958 See Flaubert 3; Modern Proverbs 24; Warburg 1

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• Details are all there are.

  Taizan Maezumi

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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• The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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• I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.

  John Updike

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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• A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Sweet, Reading

  Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Plain and Pleasant Talk about Fruits, Flowers and Farming”, p.120

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• The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

  Confucius

  Life, Education, Learning

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• For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.

  Robert Sommer

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Robert Sommer (1978). “The Mind's Eye: Imagery in Everyday Life”

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• A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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• You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these are only illusions of permanence. They know even less than you do.

  Barry Lopez

  Education, Time, Learning

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Desert Notes and River Notes”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• ... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Friendship, Book, Garden

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• To the makying of bookes of gardenyng there is noe ende.

  Thomas Hill

  Education, Learning

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• You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.

  Monty Don

  Beauty, Beautiful, Needs

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• They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.

  Thomas More

  Education, Learning, Men

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• Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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• Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

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  Ram Dass

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, 'Well that taught me a lesson.'

  Ken Dodd

  Funny, Night, Men

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• You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.

  Dennis Miller

  Comedy, Problem, Realizing

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• literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Heart, Development

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• On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Development, Literacy

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