Freedom ...

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Cicero

Season's Greetings

Thank you all for visiting me this year.

The Galloping Gardener

Look beyond and you will see ...

Look beyond and you will see more life in the distance.

The Galloping Gardener

Beauty is not in the face ...

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Kahlil Gibran

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Travel ...

Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.

Seneca

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Live life ....

Live life to the fullest.

Ernest Hemingway

Once you choose hope ...

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

Christopher Reeve

The more alternatives ...

The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.

Abbe 'D' Allanival

Advice is like snow ...

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, 

and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Let your life lightly dance ...

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew 
on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Wisdom ...

Wisdom comes with winters.

Oscar Wilde

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Winter is on my head ...

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Victor Hugo

It is our choices ...

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

J.K. Rowling

We are born believing

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Why does the eye see ...

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams 

than the imagination when awake?

Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing is permanent ...

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

Invention ...

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Thorstein Veblen

Being in the right place ...

Being in the right place at the right time can only happen

when you keep moving towards the next opportunity.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Losing an illusion ...

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Ludwig Borne

The Raven Foundation

Only I can change my life ...

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Do not anticipate trouble ...

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

Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin

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Good manners will open doors ...

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Clarence Thomas

He who would travel happily ...

He who would travel happily must travel light.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Galloping Gardener in Cuba

Music is the wine ...

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

To be pleased ...

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Goethe

Green fingers ... and thanks!

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

Russell Page

And I'd also like to say a big thank you here to Sussex Prairies (above), and to 

Usual and Unusual Plants, who so kindly donated part of their Open Day takings 

to our hospital project in India - The Raven Foundation - which will be opening soon.

Beauty in things exists ...

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

Finish each day ...

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the field of observation ....

In the field of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Life isn't about finding yourself ...

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

The Raven Foundation

Total absence of humour ...

Total absence of humour renders life impossible.

Colette

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We live in a fantasy world

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion.

The great task in life is to find reality.

Iris Murdoch

We do not remember days ...

We do not remember days; we remember moments.

Cesare Pavese

Nature does not hurry ..

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Lao Tzu

There are two kinds of light ...

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates

and the glare that obscures.

James Thurber

Taste ...

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Victor Hugo

Set all things ...

Set all things in their peculiar place, and know

that order is the greatest grace.

John Dryden

So let us welcome ....

So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

William Cowper

We never know the worth of water ...

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Thomas Fuller

England has four seasons ...

England has four seasons. But do we have to have them in one day?

Oscar Wilde

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Hopes are planted ...

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden, where dreams blossom

into priceless treasures.

Author Unknown

The Galloping Gardener

Seize the day ....

Seize the day.  Put no trust in tomorrow.

Horace

Vision is the art of seeing ...

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Jonathan Swift

To invent ....

To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas Edison

Knowledge comes ....

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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A banker ....

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is
shining, but wants it back again the minute it begins to rain.

Mark Twain

In summer ...

In summer, the song sings itself.

William Carlos Williams

Life is like sailing

Life is like sailing.  You can use any wind to go in any direction.

Robert Brault

The Raven Foundation

What a strange illusion ...

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Leo Tolstoy

Poetry of the earth ...

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

John Keats