Quotes & Sayings About Fennel

It had been a long quest. Yet I was within casting distance of my dream. — Fennel Hudson

There are a million-and-one ways to enjoy a day's angling. Catching fish is but one of them. — Fennel Hudson

I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen. — Fennel Hudson

Working on the native-herb garden in the front corner of the yard. Already thriving: thyme, hyssop, spearmint, lemon balm, fennel, chamomile, marjoram. Must add: lavender, ambrosia, valerian, mugwort, pennyroyal, gillyflower, and (when it's warmer) sweet basil. — Neal Stephenson

I like to send letters. I love to receive them. I could never throw away a letter. — Fennel Hudson

Mind games contain only inner demons. — Fennel Hudson

It is this brighter side, the romantic side, the emotional side, that appeals to me. — Fennel Hudson

Seek and see beauty in the watery world. — Fennel Hudson

To not use a talent to the best of your ability is to stifle the thing that makes you most special. It is like plucking the wings off a butterfly. — Fennel Hudson

Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book. — John Cowper Powys

We seek not for forgiveness, but the freedom and time to do more than 'exist'. — Fennel Hudson

A spectator would conclude that I was living in the past. But I was very much living in the present. My present. — Fennel Hudson

Publish a book before you're too old to read it without glasses. — Fennel Hudson

Time alone helps us to remember who we are. — Fennel Hudson

Some will say that searching for your dreams is like looking for unicorns in an emerald forest. — Fennel Hudson

We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become. — Fennel Hudson

Study the nature around you, but also within you. — Fennel Hudson

There's no such thing as 'not enough time' out here in the woods. I don't even have a watch. Time is my own, categorised as nothing more than 'morning, afternoon, evening and night'. — Fennel Hudson

Having a fishing rod in your hand is merely an excuse to explore out-of-sight depths and reveal mysteries that previously only existed in dreams. — Fennel Hudson

Soon I will return to the office, to shuffle paper, delete emails and avoid the Typing Dead. — Fennel Hudson

Like a snake on a rock, I have shed my skin and grown another. I feel reborn and ready to resume activities. — Fennel Hudson

Freedom within is embodied in things as well as people. Like coins tossed into a wishing well, they contain our hopes and dreams. — Fennel Hudson

You can't kill time, only a part of your life that would otherwise have been happy. — Fennel Hudson

The real world, in my opinion, exists in the countryside, where Nature goes about her quiet business and brings us greatest pleasure. — Fennel Hudson

I'm likely to stay here, pen in hand, until dusk comes and my writing melts into the twilight. — Fennel Hudson

Michelin Star? I'd rather chew a French rubber tyre. — Fennel Hudson

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale. — Fennel Hudson

Stop and unplug," say I; "look around you, at the vastness and greatness of the natural world." Some stop. Others need binoculars to tie their shoelaces. — Fennel Hudson

Rural and traditional escapism. That's my angle. Places and events where we are free to relax and be ourselves, where nobody tells us to hurry along or conform or grow up. Somewhere we can properly live. — Fennel Hudson

Seek a slower, simpler life. — Fennel Hudson

You gotta look backwards to go forwards. — Fennel Hudson

My favorite dish is brown rice with lentils, roasted red and yellow peppers, and fennel, with a sweet potato and a salad on the side. — Christie Brinkley

It was one of those places where mist lingers well into the day and the dawn chorus starts early. — Fennel Hudson

One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of buffed Big Nothing granite. But there was a want in these ladies yet, and it was for the rude life of youth. — Kevin Barry

Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper. — Fennel Hudson

Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people ... Fennel ... smelling of changes to come. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Be confident enough to show your true self to the world. — Fennel Hudson

Reality is in the ether, a blend of present-day experiences infused with one's memories and dreams. A life that is real to one is surreal to another. — Fennel Hudson

Eight months in the woods have hardened me, or at least firmed up my beliefs that if a man's going to fend for himself, then he needs to leave his credit card at home. — Fennel Hudson

Traditional angling is to escape the noise and one-upmanship of modern angling in favour of something simple and beautiful. — Fennel Hudson

Enjoy the contented silence. — Fennel Hudson

The real reason I like natural fabrics is not just because they are traditional, but because of their provenance. I like the thought that, for example, a favourite tweed jacket was once a sheep, living upon a mountain in Scotland. — Fennel Hudson

Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one's self. — Fennel Hudson

I am not at work, or at the supermarket, or waiting for a bus (metaphorically or otherwise). I am free. — Fennel Hudson

Oxtail soup, summer greens tossed with pecans, grapes, red fennel, and crumbled cheese, hot crab pie, spiced squash, and quails drowned in butter. — George R R Martin

To sit on the stile would be to continue a familiar existence. To cross the stile would be to begin something new. — Fennel Hudson

The promise of adventure is often more exciting than the adventure itself. — Fennel Hudson

Where the writing takes place doesn't matter to a publisher, but it matters a great deal to the author. — Fennel Hudson

I cherish the ability to say I love something or someone without having to give reason. — Fennel Hudson

Listen to your heart, not your head. — Fennel Hudson

Water creates so much beauty, life and mystery. — Fennel Hudson

Be batty, be traditional, and be proud. — Fennel Hudson

There's no point pretending to be someone or something we're not. — Fennel Hudson

Sometimes we just have to stop and feel the pulse of the Earth, the rhythm of the seasons and the internal voice that was once our childhood friend. — Fennel Hudson

Things today 'sure ain't like they used to be'. They've changed, moved on, progressed. — Fennel Hudson

Old buildings whisper to us in the creaking of floorboards and rattling of windowpanes. — Fennel Hudson

Life is a wonderfully fine thing. Go live it. — Fennel Hudson

Stand up for your beliefs, and be different. — Fennel Hudson

You can escape completely, seeking an alternative life, or you can play the game and go absent without leave. How you do it is up to you. — Fennel Hudson

A man can never have too many books. Neither can he have too many fountain pens, hats, fishing rods, waistcoats, tea caddies, paintings or whatever helps him to feel at home in his surroundings and communicate his personality to the world. — Fennel Hudson

The past informs the present. — Fennel Hudson

Every layer of complexity creates greater distance from life's simple truths. — Fennel Hudson

If, like me, you suffer from lack of self-confidence you'll know that the term is made up of two conflicting words, and that confidence isn't easily found in the self. — Fennel Hudson

It is the quietening of the day that most appeals. — Fennel Hudson

Angling is a sport, so sporting ethics should apply. — Fennel Hudson

In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork. — Ina Garten

I'm beginning to realise that I'm either overly sentimental, or am a hoarder who struggles to part with things. In all honesty, I'm probably both. — Fennel Hudson

Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine's Day. — Fennel Hudson

Sounds simple, doesn't it, this notion of simplicity? Simple things done simply by a simple person. But it's not as simple as it seems. — Fennel Hudson

A letter allows us to travel through time. — Fennel Hudson

Believe in something important. Pursue it wholeheartedly. — Fennel Hudson

A man can never be truly free when he knows that he is neglecting his duties elsewhere. — Fennel Hudson

Change bothers me. I don't cope too well with fashions, fads and urban traffic lights. — Fennel Hudson

We are so blinkered by progress, so preoccupied with where we want to go and how fast we can travel, that many of us have lost the ability to simply 'stop'. — Fennel Hudson

Life, as I see it, wraps around us, even when we think we are firmly embracing it. — Fennel Hudson

The greatest gifts are those that say, "I know you". — Fennel Hudson

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce. — Fennel Hudson

Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside. — Fennel Hudson

Creative people need strong encouragement. — Fennel Hudson

Editing one's writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle. — Fennel Hudson

These are our precious things. Simple things. A currency of sentiments. — Fennel Hudson

I am an old fashioned angler seeking to fish in a peaceful and relaxing way in traditional surroundings. Other anglers are too noisy, too busy, and catch fish that might break my landing net. — Fennel Hudson

Fine Things are reservoirs for the heart. — Fennel Hudson

My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location. — Fennel Hudson

I'm pretty sure I'm the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill. — Fennel Hudson

The things we place greatest value upon are prioritised by their context in our lives. — Fennel Hudson

Emery was kneeling outside "gardening" when Ceony and Langston stepped through the illusion that masked the paper magician's house. He had positioned himself outside the curving garden of meticulously crafted paper flowers, and seemed to be replacing all the red, tulip-shaped flower heads with blue, lily-shaped ones. Fennel chewed on the discarded spells as Emery worked, crumpling them in his paper mouth and then spitting the balls into an overturned trash receptacle. — Charlie N. Holmberg

How is your handwriting?" I ask. "Do you write in pencil or pen?" They stare back at me with squinting eyes and a look that needs no words. "Get with it granddad. — Fennel Hudson

We are all Clapping Monkeys, but while some of us smile, others look around to see if anyone has noticed. — Fennel Hudson

I've indulged all my escapist dreams. I'm here, away from everyone, living it up. Being a selfish and antisocial git. — Fennel Hudson

Leaving the rat race is easy. All you have to do is quit your job, sell your house, and go and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere. It's staying out of the rat race that's tricky. — Fennel Hudson

Man-made fabrics? What provenance do they have? A squirt of gloop into a petri dish? Strands of plastic spun in sterile laboratories? They are but toxins made safe by men in white coats. — Fennel Hudson

Organic life cannot be far from water. — Fennel Hudson

Look back, but never look down. — Fennel Hudson

The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful. — Fennel Hudson

My first lessons were to respect all life, protect Mother Earth, and nurture the plants and herbs. I look whenever I go home to the Reservation to see if comfrey, fennel, catnip, rosemary, and many of the plants that we care for are still growing in the backyard. Sure enough, they are always there, reminding me that life does go on. — J.T. Garrett

The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve. — Fennel Hudson

To go fishing is one of the most pleasurable experiences I can imagine. — Fennel Hudson

Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot. — Fennel Hudson

The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one's mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible. — Fennel Hudson