“When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand that's offered us. I offer you mine...I'll be your friend, if you wish. The faithful kind.… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
“It was a figure of a whale, with a white triangle that was supposed to be its spray. The spray moved up and down… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
“the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.” — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice. — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
“Why do I need TV when I have forty-eight apartment windows to watch across the vacant lot, and a sliver of Lake Erie? I've… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
“You can't see Canada across Lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
“Isn't that the essence of literature?...Our ability to identify with characters, no matter that they're separated from us by thousands of miles and hundreds… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
“When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
“The sidewalk was completely empty. It was Sunday, early April. An icy wind teetered trash cans and turned my cheeks to marble. In Vietnam… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
