Meditation in a Wood
What is the use of a house
if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
~ Henry David Thoreau
Alone with glimpses of character and conscience.
There is more to life than increasing its speed. M. Gandhi
There are years when nothing happens
and years in which centuries happen. Carlos Fuentes
Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre
There have never in history been so many opportunities to do so many things that aren't worth doing. William Gaddis
I refuse to be put in the position of telling my grandchildren:
'Sorry, there's no more world for you. We used it all up.' Frank Herbert
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories,
to the details around us. Virginia Woolf
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
Charles William Stubbs
The grand essentials of happiness are:
something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allen K. Chalmers
Where we love is home. Home that our feet may leave but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
One can acquire everything in solitude except character. Stendhal
We get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. Paul Bowles
Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom. Gustave Flaubert
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
from "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
He who cannot rest cannot work; he who cannot let go cannot hold on
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The wise skeptic does not teach doubt
but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person. Veronique Vienne
Ideas are our only truly renewable resource. Joel Hodgson
There are only two things in life you really want to do. One is to be useful.
The other is to make a difference. Doug Hall
If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. Charlie Parker
Work without contemplation is never enough. Douglas Steere
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
Henry L. Mencken
for knowledge add a little every day
for wisdom erase a little every day
Lao Tse
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? Wendell Berry
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
Doug Larson
Each morning now, the sun's at the window a few moments earlier
as if to say, "Today? Will you spend the day with me today?"
Go to the garden for an hour a week!
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the whole world.
Charles Dudley Warner
When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let's be grateful for those who give us happiness; they are the charming gardeners who make our soul bloom. Marcel Proust
Man was not made to rust out in idleness.
A degree of exercise is as necessary
for the preservation of health,
both of body and mind,
as his daily food.
And what exercise is more fitting,
or more appropriate of one who is in the decline of life,
than that of superintending a well-ordered garden?
What more enlivens the sinking mind?
What is more conducive to a long life?
Joseph Breck
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