Home Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“None of you children seem to have inherited my love of gardening (unless you count Nick, and the pot plants in the attic),”

— Elin Hilderbrand

“This completely changed their way of life. We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us. The word ‘domesticate’ comes from the Latin domus, which…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“None of us commences life utterly alone. We each carry within our granular mass the protoplasm residue of past generations’ ideas, customs, values, infatuations,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“You can't shake the roots of life and hope for a better tomorrow. Planting is the way of our journey, leaving them to grow…

— Niklaus Vestalla

“We are the first generations to grow up surrounded by evidence that our attempt to separate ourselves from ‘nature’ has been a grim failure,…

— Paul Kingsnorth

“My love for my family has grown for years in decay-fed soil, unwashed root pulled suddenly from the ground. Bulbous as a beet, a…

— Anne Michaels

“The old myth of unlimited growth alienates human beings from nature. To live sustainably we must respect nature and live by its rules. We…

— Linda Mason Hunter

Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“I am that man, the sum of him, the all of him, the hairless biped who struggled upward from the slime and created love…

— Jack London

“Human beings have always been an unfinished species, a story in the middle, a succession of families, tribes, and societies in transition to new…

— Tony Hiss

“Houses are never just houses. I'm quite sure of this now. We leave particles behind, dust and dreams, fingerprints buried on wallpapers, our tread…

— Eve Chase