Human-sacrifice Quote by Terry Pratchett

A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than…

— Russell Page

“My dear Lordships! What is the use of constructing hundreds and thousands of pompously opulent temples, worshiping thousands and millions of grandiosely ornamented Deities,…

— Aindra Das

“Seeing the moving handmill, Kabir wept and said, "Alas, no one has survived the pressure of the two millstones (of the heavens and the…

— Mir Amman

“There were hundreds of worlds like it, most of them littered with the usual Elder Culture ruins, the usual secrets waiting to be unlocked.…

— Paul McAuley

“Where is the graveyard of dead gods? What lingering mourner waters their mounds? There was a time when Jupiter was the king of the…

— H.L. Mencken

Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane…

— John Ruskin

“This ritual was straight out of the 1965 movie Shenandoah: “We thank you, Lord, for this food. We cleared the land. We tended the…

— David Soucie

“It's temples and palaces did seem Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to heaven.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“If the nature of the world is revealed to man through religion, then gardens, as places for contemplation, should symbolise the perfection of nature.”

— Tom Turner

“We view the world very much as peasants in the countryside have for millennia. they've alsways said that the mountains are high and the…

— Lisa See

In a traditional Japanese or Chinese garden, it's not only about the building or temple but about the whole setup - the structure, the…

— Ma Yansong

We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl,…

— Erasmus Darwin