Nan Fairbrother
Nan Fairbrother
Nan Fairbrotherwas an English writer and lecturer on landscape and land use. She was a Member of the UK Institute of Landscape Architects, now the Landscape Institute. Her brotherFairbrother) was also a landscape architect. Fairbrother was born in Coventry, England, and attended the University of London, graduating with honours in English. After graduation, she worked as a hospital physiotherapist, before settling in London. In 1939 she married William McKenzie, a physician. Their son, Dan McKenzie, was a Cambridge geophysicist instrumental...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
stories plot momentum
Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.
fighting friendly way
perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly ...
priorities essentials crowds
the urgent crowds out the essential.
division use humans
One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.
real profound imagination
The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.
garden would-be plant
If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.
sadness home loss
when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life - I have always noticed that before it happens - this leaving, this parting - when we think about it beforehand we are overwhelmed with sadness at the loss to come. ... the most unbearable sense of loss, the worst homesickness of all, so I have found, is this loss and sickness we feel beforehand, before we ever leave home.
summer gun black
the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.
enthusiasm soil different
Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.
children profound sorrow
The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected ...
eye hair people
There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.
happiness giving people
Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.
attitude mind leisure
leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
happiness luxury would-be
I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.