"The principal value of a garden is not……" — Charles Dudley Warner
"The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation."
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Charles Dudley Warner
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72 Quotes by Charles Dudley Warner
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You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself…
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The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
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To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of…
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A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.
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I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in…
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into…
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The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike…
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There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be…
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Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.
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Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
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More Alienation Quotes
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
— Roland Barthes
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We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes…
— Alex Campbell
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Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society…
— Jean Baker Miller
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In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the…
— Colin Gunton
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The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed…
— J. William Fulbright
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I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel…
— Boyd Rice
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We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's…
— Hans Rookmaaker
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The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled…
— Thomas Berry
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Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story…
— Thomas Berry
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To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life.…
— James Taylor
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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
— Arthur Miller
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