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“To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.”
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“I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.”
Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.152
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“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”
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“Be kind to your garden and be gentle on your back!”
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“Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.”
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“In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.”
Source : Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan
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“If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.”
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“She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique...”
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“It's like walking through someone's small intestine.”
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“The best dress for walking is nakedness.”
