Felder Rushing quotes

“Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you anyway.”
-- Felder Rushing

Source : Felder Rushing (2011). “Slow Gardening: A No-Stress Philosophy for All Senses and All Seasons”, p.36, Chelsea Green Publishing

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“Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?”
-- Felder Rushing

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“If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.”

“It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.”

“The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.”

“Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.”

“It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.”

“DISABUSE, v.t. To present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed advantageous to embrace.”

“I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.”

Source : Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.67, U of Nebraska Press

“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.”

“There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.”

“I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.”