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flower home animal
What does Reverence for Life say abut the relations between [humanity] and the animal world? Whenever I injury any kind of life I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavoidable, not even in apparently insignificant things. The farmer who has mowed down a thousand flowers in his meadow in order to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike the head off a single flower by the side of the road in idle amusement, for he thereby infringes on the law of life without being under the pressure of necessity. Albert Schweitzer
flowers people provide reasons
Self-sown flowers provide a lot of serendipity, which is one of the reasons people garden. When they come up, it's a delight. Renee Shepherd
flower garden roots
John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he went into the hayfield and the meadow, and plucked up his language by the roots, and spoke out in the words that the people used in their cottages. Charles Spurgeon
flower evil needs
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.
flower rain wind
The flowers are ravined by bees, the fruit blossoms are thrown to the ground, the wind the rain forces everything. Charles Olson
flower mean effort
The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress. Elbert Hubbard
flower water tree
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants... Egon Schiele
flower sunshine grandchildren
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! Edward Abbey
flower feet roots
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot. Ben Jonson
garden gardener grows knows proverbs
More grows in the garden than the gardener knows he has sown.
garden grow organic tomatoes
I can't do as much as I used to, but I can still grow a little corn, tomatoes and some cucumbers in my organic garden out back. Thomas Hood
garden games childhood
At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played. Elizabeth Bowen
garden woods neglected
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot Dixie Lee Ray
garden roses
I have a garden of my own,/ But so with roses overgrown,/ And lilies, that you would it guess/ To be a little wilderness. Andrew Marvell
gardening love
I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime. Blake Shelton
gardening green listening means shower
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
gardener patience spirit tenacity
The patience, the tenacity of the gardener for me, it's the spirit of Tessa. Ralph Fiennes
gardens
When I picture England, I picture little gardens and beautiful yards. I don't really like cities; I like to go and see things like that. Brittany Howard
roots source
Love. Its roots are deep. Its source unknowable.
roots dirt clear
Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.
roots hatred done
Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done... Dennis Prager
roots evil effort
It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist. Elizabeth Blackwell
roots tree healthy
Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy. Deepak Chopra
roots hatred trying
Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy. Abdul Qadeer Khan
roots genius authenticity
The words "genius" and "genuine" derive from the same root. The core of genius is authenticity. Alan Cohen
roots anxiety strange
We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble. Alan Watts
roots evil important
It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is. David Graeber