“My heart was now a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
Variant: Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
Source: The Princess Bride
“The idea that paradise, the proper habitat of a human being, is a walled garden – is a good one. It's an echo back to the chaos/order idea. Walls: culture. Garden: nature. The proper human habitat is a properly tended garden.”
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifi5KkXig3s "Biblical Series IV: Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death"
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Rudyard Kipling
(1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
The Glory of the Garden http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/english_history/glorygarden.html, Stanza 8.
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“It's a big garden — I've tended only one corner of it.”
Starhawk
(1951) American author, activist and Neopagan
Bodhi Tree lecture (1999)
Context: The Spiral Dance is a seed planted twenty years ago. Over the last two decades, the goddess movement has grown from many seeds like a garden of long-life flowers and healing herbs. It's a big garden — I've tended only one corner of it.
“Democracy is a garden that has to be tended.”
Barack Obama
(1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Remarks during conference held on March 6, 2019 by Qualtrics, a tech company in Salt Lake City. As quoted in the March 7, 2019 article " Obama warns that if the world isn't careful, democracy could be in danger: 'Democracy is a garden that has to be tended' https://web.archive.org/web/20191127211836/https://www.businessinsider.de/obama-issued-a-warning-on-the-political-climate-i-like-the-rule-of-law-democracy-competency-and-facts-those-things-arent-partisan-but-they-also-dont-happen-auatomatically-2019-3?r=US&IR=T" by Business Insider Deutschland author Julie Bort.
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