"A book which is left on a shelf……" — Susan Hill
"A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life."
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15 Quotes by Susan Hill
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Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn…
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This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the…
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The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still…
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I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the…
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Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am…
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Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the…
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There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing,…
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Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is…
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I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape,…
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Whatever was about, whoever I had seen, and heard rocking, and who had passed me by just now, whoever had…
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A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural,…
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I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me,…
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