“But the sea
which no one tends
is also a garden”
William Carlos Williams book Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
Source: Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
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.
“But the sea
which no one tends
is also a garden”
William Carlos Williams book Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
Source: Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems
“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. <br class="br">2019
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifi5KkXig3s "Biblical Series IV: Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death"
Jeffrey Pfeffer (1946) American academic
Organizations and organization theory, 1982
Context: The domain of organization theory is coming to resemble more of a weed patch than a well-tended garden. Theories of the middle range (Merton, 1968; Pinder and Moore, 1979) proliferate, along with measures, terms, concepts, and research paradigms. It is often difficult to discern in what direction knowledge of organizations is progressing — or if, it is progressing at all. Researchers, students of organization theory, and those who look to such theory for some guidance about issues of management and administration confront an almost bewildering array of variables, perspectives, and inferred prescriptions.
“Don't push me
I've got a corner at my back
I've nowhere to go except over you.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Source: See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die
Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)
Song lyrics, Jump Up! (1982)
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Narrated Abdullah bin Qais, in Bukhari, Volume 6, Book 60, Number 402
Sunni Hadith
“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
Aldous Huxley book Time Must Have a Stop
Time Must Have a Stop (1944)