Words empty as the wind....

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

Homer

Never take anything for granted

Never take anything for granted.

Benjamin Disraeli

Even if something is left undone ...

Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time

to sit still and watch the leaves turn.

Elizabeth Lawrence

Youth cannot know ...

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if

they forget what it feels like to be young.

J.K. Rowling

The trees that are slow to grow ...

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Moliere

Failure will never overtake me...

Failure will never overtake me if my determination is strong enough.

Og Mandino

The Raven Foundation

Flying may not be all plain sailing...

Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Amelia Earhart

Life is like a landscape

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it

only from the vantage point of distance.

Charles Lindbergh

It is not only fine feathers...

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

Aesop

Abundance

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Epicurus

Be like the sun and meadow ...

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned

about the coming winter.

George Bernard Shaw

Green fingers ...

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

Russell Page

In all things of nature ...

In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.

Aristotle

No two gardens are the same

No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden.

Hugh Johnson

Chance is always powerful

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast;

in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Ovid

The secret of happiness ...

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

Losing an illusion ...

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding the truth.

Ludwig Borne

Things are only impossible ...

Things are only impossible until they're not.

Jean-Luc Picard

The bird of paradise

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

Climate change

Ignoring climate change will be the most costly of all possible

choices for us and for our children.

Peter Ewins

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If you have a garden...

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Cicero

Autumn arrives in the early morning...

Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close

of a winter day.

Elizabeth Bowen

Real freedom lies in wildness ....

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilisation.

Charles Lindbergh

Defer not till tomorrow...

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.

William Congreve

Autumn...

Many human beings say they enjoy the winter, but what they really

enjoy is feeling proof against it.

Richard Adams

The Galloping Gardener

Keep in the sunlight ....

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.

Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin

On days when the sun is grey...

On days when the sky is grey, the sun has not disappeared for ever.

Arnaud Desjardins

Fire is the test of gold ....

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Martha Graham

Love is a fruit ...

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

Mother Theresa

A camel ...

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

Sir Alec Issigonis

Beauty....

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume