Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. —Will Rogers More about this quote Tags: action doing effort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We must do what we conceive to be right and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we'll be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll do the wrong thing, and we'll be part of the disease and not part of the cure. —E. F. Schumacher More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Faith is not making religious-sounding noises in the daytime. It is asking your innermost self questions at night — and then getting up and going to work. —Mary Jean Irion More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Tags: philosophy writing effort practice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The grandeur of nature is only the beginning. Beyond the grandeur is God. —Abraham Joshua Heschel More about this quote Tags: God beauty nature grandeur Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine — which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes. —Wendell Berry More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn. —Garrison Keillor More about this quote Tags: good sex Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener. . . . She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself. —Renata Adler More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. —John Muir More about this quote Tags: world nature interconnection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Have you become a farmer? Is it not pleasanter than to be shut up within four walls and delving eternally with the pen? —Thomas Jefferson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissing the tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. —Margaret Atwood More about this quote Tags: rationality gardening ceremony dirt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's little risk in becoming overly proud of one's garden, because gardening by its very nature is humbling. It has a way of keeping you on your knees. —JoAnn R. Bartwick More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It seems to me that our three basic needs for food and security and love are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. —M.F.K. Fisher More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Humans — despite their artistic pretensions, their sophistication, and their many accomplishments — owe their existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: existence accomplishment accomplishment art weather farming Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email