"A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's……" — Rumer Godden
"A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna"
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16 Quotes by Rumer Godden
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- A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
- When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
- As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests…
- Memory is the only friend of grief.
- A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries,…
- If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that…
- The stitch of a book is its words.
- For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like…
- There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an…
- It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen;…
- I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.
- I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into…
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