The Resilient Gardener Quotes & Sayings

Reality is, there is almost always something going wrong. Hard times are normal. — Carol Deppe

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula ... to give a facade tot he void. — Emile M. Cioran

I think she was just travelling. I don't think she had any idea of finding whoever it was she was following. — William Faulkner

So the dentist took a trip to his local supermarkets, brought seventy-eight brands of cereal back to his lab, and proceeded to measure the sugar content of each with damning precision. A third of the brands had sugar levels between 10 percent and 25 percent. Another third ranged up to an alarming 50 percent, and eleven climbed even higher still - with one cereal, Super Orange Crisps, packing a sugar load of 70.8 percent. When each cereal brand was cross-referenced with TV advertising records, the sweetest brands were found to be the ones most heavily marketed to kids during Saturday morning cartoons. — Michael Moss

I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering. — Chuck Palahniuk

Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in. — Yogi Berra

One must distance oneself from the idea of strict realism. It seems to me that real nature doesn't exist anymore, this idea of "the wild." This is why I love parks, and why I chose to use them in my work - they are beyond nature. I see nature as a resource. — Sergio Chejfec

'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided. — Jim Beaver

Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt — Aleister Crowley