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“Digitoxin
(sometimes referred to as digitoxin or digitalis)
This widely used heart medication is a cardiac glycoside used in the treatment of atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, and congestive heart failure. Found in the lovely purple bells of the foxglove plant and the gorgeous, velvety black wings of the monarch butterfly, digoxin is probably the most beautiful medication there ever was.”
― Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire
(sometimes referred to as digitoxin or digitalis)
This widely used heart medication is a cardiac glycoside used in the treatment of atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, and congestive heart failure. Found in the lovely purple bells of the foxglove plant and the gorgeous, velvety black wings of the monarch butterfly, digoxin is probably the most beautiful medication there ever was.”
― Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire
“Once your soil is fertile and weed-free, everything else becomes easier.”
― Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
― Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
“The bed of thorns will teach you what the bed of roses can’t.”
― Night of a Thousand Thoughts
― Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“And then he said, Child. I am afraid. I am old. But not ready. To die.
O, she said, for she was a fool and could not help it, Well, master, dying is a skill learned only in its undertaking.
Undertaking! he laughed. Then he began to cry.”
― The Vaster Wilds
O, she said, for she was a fool and could not help it, Well, master, dying is a skill learned only in its undertaking.
Undertaking! he laughed. Then he began to cry.”
― The Vaster Wilds
“It is a lovely strath. The flat river lands widen and narrow, the path goes by and through hazel woods where nuts ripen in harvest weather, discloses sudden meadows where rabbits look and vanish, swerves round and on, but ever holds by the river. The slopes that shut out the strath from the moors are steep and wooded to their summits.
It is not a glen of the mountains, craggy, stupendous, physically impressive. There is nothing here to overwhelm the romantic mind. Its beauty is an inward grace in oneself akin to what is indefinable in the memory of a masterpiece. Beauty, intimate and secretive, has a lingering, lovely mirth; at the core of it, hope and fulfilment meet and tread a measure; while heads turn with glistening eyes to look for any or no excuse to laugh. In some such mood the Creator must have looked upon his handiwork and called it good.”
― Highland River
It is not a glen of the mountains, craggy, stupendous, physically impressive. There is nothing here to overwhelm the romantic mind. Its beauty is an inward grace in oneself akin to what is indefinable in the memory of a masterpiece. Beauty, intimate and secretive, has a lingering, lovely mirth; at the core of it, hope and fulfilment meet and tread a measure; while heads turn with glistening eyes to look for any or no excuse to laugh. In some such mood the Creator must have looked upon his handiwork and called it good.”
― Highland River
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