Bill Mollison (1928–2016) Australian permaculturist
Source: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 1.3
“Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.”
Source: Othello
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
Clive Staples Lewis book A Grief Observed
A Grief Observed (1961)
Context: But perhaps I lack the gift. I see I've described her as being like a sword. That's true as far as it goes. But utterly inadequate by itself, and misleading. I ought to have said 'But also like a garden. Like a nest of gardens, wall within wall, hedge within hedge, more secret, more full of fragrant and fertile life, the further you explore.'
And then, of her, and every created thing I praise, I should say 'in some way, in its unique way, like Him who made it.'
Thus up from the garden to the Gardener, from the sword to the Smith. to the life-giving Life and the Beauty that makes beautiful.
“Let us cultivate our garden.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
Citas, Candide (1759)
“Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.”
George Lois (1931) American art director, designer and author
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Divan as quoted in Classical Islam and the Naqshbandi Sufi Tradition By Muhammad Hisham Kabbani p.195
“May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
T.S. Eliot book Four Quartets
Variant: Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
Source: Four Quartets
