“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”
Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism
“Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
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