I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.
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Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them.
~quotes on Trees by Horizon, Electronic Frontier A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
~sayings on People by Helen Rowland Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
~quotations on Jealousy by Honore de Balzac There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
~funny celebrity quote by Frederick Faber And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
~quote about Happiness by Frederick Keonig Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
~quotes on Daydreaming by Luis Buñuel Art is an adventure that never seems to end.
~sayings on Art by Jason, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999 Speaking ill of others is cheap, dishonest way to praise ourselves.
~quotations on Maturing Altruistically by If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
~funny celebrity quote by J.M. Power The Theologian is an owl, sitting on an old dead branch in the tree of human knowledge, and hooting the same old hoots that have been hooted for hundreds and thousands of years, but he has never given a hoot for progress.
~saying about celebrity by Emmet F. Fields The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the Four F's: fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.
~quote about Sex by Unknown psychology professor in neuropsychology course Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
~quotes on Gratitude by G.B. Stern What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.
~sayings on Taxes by Thomas Paine I look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity; to a time when a brotherhood award would be as ridiculous as an award for getting up each morning.
~quotations on Brotherhood Unity by Daniel D. Mich Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
~funny celebrity quote by Bill Vaughn Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
~saying about celebrity by Casey Stengel We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
~quote about Dancing by D.H. Lawrence Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
~quotes on Attitude by English Proverb To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
~sayings on Books Reading by W. Somerset Maugham I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
~quotations on Photography by Wynn Bullock It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
~funny celebrity quote by Arthur James Balfour Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, footwork and hair-trigger reflexes. Many of the players famed for quickness on court would finish dead last in a field of schoolgirls in a race over any distance more than ten yards.
~saying about celebrity by Eugene Scott Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
~quote about Marriage by Groucho Marx Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
~quotes on Health by Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty draws us with a single hair.
~sayings on Hair by Alexander Pope The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.
~quotations on History by Michel de Montaigne, translated We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
~funny celebrity quote by Vince Lombardi Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.
~saying about celebrity by Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927 Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~quote about Kindness by Attributed to both T.H. Thompson and John Watson Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.
~quotes on Honesty by Mark Twain All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
~sayings on Happiness by buddha Live simply that others might simply live.
~quotations on Simplicity by Elizabeth Seaton It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.
~funny celebrity quote by Chinese Proverb May thy ball lie in green pastures... and not in still waters.
~saying about celebrity by Author Unknown Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
~quote about Jobs by Doug Larson As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.
~quotes on History by John Smith
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