Garden Quotes - Page 29

• When State Way Gardens and The Robert Taylor Homes were being torn down, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to use that as a backdrop for the development of a super hero narrative.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Hero, Home, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's the key - to maintain the garden of liberty, right? This is a generational thing that we must all do continuously. We only have the rights that we protect. It doesn't matter what we say or think we have. It's not enough to believe in something; it matters what we actually defend.

  Edward Snowden

  Believe, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Our female bodies are connected with nature just like a garden.

  Christiane Northrup

  Female, Body, Connected

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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• I never second-guess myself. I could wrestle you right now and I know we'd have a good match. Right now. Let's go to the ring and don't even worry about it, let's go. Madison Square Garden. Let's do it. Once you feel that way, nothing can bring you down, nothing can stop you.

  Chris Jericho

  Squares, Worry, Way

  Source: www.wwe.com

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• White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon!

  Dick Gregory

  School, College, Voice

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses, and the voice I hear falling on my ear the son of God discloses. And he walks with me, and he talks with me. And he tells me I am his own, and the joy we share as we tarry there, none other has ever known.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Fall, Son, Voice

  "Dwight Yoakam Says New Album Was Inspired By Coal Mining And Mountain Music". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 6, 2016.

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• While drinking, while talking, while writing, while watering our garden, it's always possible to practice living in the here and the now.

  Nhat Hanh

  Drinking, Writing, Talking

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from a theological point of view, goes back to the Garden of Eden, that there is always this corrupt gene waiting to be activated that we inherited from the very beginning. I don't believe in that theological excuse.

  Wole Soyinka

  Believe, Views, Expression

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Spring, Bud, Springtime

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• What happens is most of us are so busy in our lives with our families and our vocation which we should be, but we tend not to look at what I call these parallel interests, and they develop along the way. And sometimes one can say, well, you know, why should I grow my own garden and spend all that time when I can buy carrots cheaper at the supermarket and just put aside that kind of an interest.

  Darold Treffert

  Looks, Way, Kind

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It's one thing to assent to propositions like 'The way of things is ineffable', and quite another to internalise what it is being gestured at by such propositions, to get a sense or feel for mystery. For me, at least, it is in and through ways of engaging with nature that this sense is intimated. These ways include being in the garden.

  David E. Cooper

  Way, Mystery, Ineffable

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.

  David E. Cooper

  Good Life, Civilization, Relation

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Does the unmistakeable intent of Versailles to proclaim dominion over nature destroy its aesthetic appeal, as Schopenhauer thought? Does the greenness of the lawn lose its allure when we learn how much water, sorely needed elsewhere, it uses? And historical shifts in garden taste - from formal, 'French' gardens to 'Capability' Brown's landscapes, for instance, or from the elaborate gardens of imperial Kyoto to Zen 'dry' gardens - register important changes in philosophical or religious attitudes.

  David E. Cooper

  Religious, Attitude, Philosophical

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• As for the meaning of gardens, particular gardens may have, of course, all sorts of different meanings - emotive, historical, emblematic, religious, commemorative, and so on. But I think that good gardens all signify or exemplify an important truth about the relationship of culture and nature - their inseparability.

  David E. Cooper

  Religious, Thinking, Historical

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• How people make gardens is bound to reflect a way of experiencing the natural world, while at the same time this experience of nature is bound to reflect a culture - ways of painting nature, for example, or representing nature in literature, or of course making gardens.

  David E. Cooper

  People, Way, Example

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and nature - that presuppose one another.

  David E. Cooper

  Culture, Spheres, Symbols

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I was pretty shocked [having concert in the Madison Square Garden]. It could have gone either way. But I think it's the right time. Nobody does what we do with taking the visuals and making it a complete rock 'n' roll show with the really good songs. Nobody's done that in a long time.

  Vince Neil

  Song, Thinking, Squares

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I was really shocked that Madison Square Garden sold out in a day. It was very amazing. But the reason we got back together is because the fans wanted us to get back together.

  Vince Neil

  Squares, Together, Fans

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• As recently as the '70s, people were forced to see information that they didn't agree with in newspapers and the like. Now there is so much information you really can build your own walled garden that just has the stuff that reinforces your view. I think it applies to all of us. People are really going into these separate camps, and that's the big social challenge in this age of too much information. How do we crack that and create a common dialogue?

  Paul Saffo

  Thinking, Views, People

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I think most people do not imagine how things can change. In Detroit, there are community gardens that are only an indication that the country is coming back to the city. And that is something that actually is necessary to stop the real imminent danger of the extermination of our planet.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have always gone to nature, since I was a kid. I was brought up in the woods, I did not have lots of friends, so I spent lot of time alone. My mother always loved to live in the forest; she loved gardens, birds and nature and taught me a deep respect for that. She taught me about growing food and vegetables and to take care of animals. They also have feelings. So nature was always something sacred for me, the place I can go, meditate and pray. It's like a church in the nature for me.

  David LaChapelle

  Mother, Kids, Animal

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• The difference between me and many young people is, I don't carry music with me. I like to think. I don't use any modern convenience to be talking to other people, because I like my time to think. I go to the garden in the morning, and this time, I'm thinking ideas, I'm not drawing, I'm thinking.

  Sergio Aragones

  Morning, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I didn't think that at the beginning. I just wanted to have a garden and a farm and have animals around me. But I do think there's a craving for people to feel a connection. Honestly, it's building on an immigrant tradition, where you bring your country to America. You bring your seeds from Italy. My neighbors are Vietnamese, so they're growing their herbs and stuff that they miss from Vietnam.

  Novella Carpenter

  Country, Animal, Thinking

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I don't think people are like, "I'm going to save the planet by planting my own herbs." But on environmental issues like climate change, there's a sense of hopelessness and despair. Maybe it's really a small gesture but if you can have a garden it may make you feel like you're helping in some way, or that you're making a connection. You can't change the world but you can change your backyard.

  Novella Carpenter

  Thinking, People, Environmental

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I don't know Hillary's Clinton stance on urban farming. I don't know Donald Trump's stance or Bernie Sanders's for that matter. But the Obamas have been amazing. You know, Michelle Obama, she planted that garden. She keeps bees there at the White House. Little known fact, though, is that Laura Bush also had an organic garden but she never told anyone about it.

  Novella Carpenter

  House, Urban, Farming

  Source: www.progressive.org

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