#garden

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#writing #experience

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains. ↗

— Bill Shankly

#curtains #down #draw #everton #garden

Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums. ↗

— Beverley Nichols

#gardens #geraniums #experience

I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end. ↗

— Paullina Simons

#the-summer-garden #life

For otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#peter-pan #faith

She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#forbidden-fruit #garden-of-eden #sin #family

The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard. ↗

— Joel Salatin

#food #gardening #gardens #supermarkets #food

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#gardening #food

Grow a garden. When there’s a food shortage in the future, you’ll need it. And when people try to steal your food and you shoot them, you’ll also need a good place to hide the bodies. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#body #death #food #food-shortage #future

The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals,water, and air;shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife. ↗

— Toby Hemenway

#food-security #gardening #organic #permaculture #provision