“The presence of a person does not destruct from, but enhances the silence, if if the other person is the right sort of hill companion. The perfect hill companion is the one whose identity is for the time being merged in that of the mountains, as you feel your own to be.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“A lot of people think that to make a garden, all you have to do is put a few seeds in the ground. These are the same people who think that conceiving a baby makes you a good parent.”
― Mrs. Greenthumbs: How I Turned a Boring Yard into a Glorious Garden and How You Can, Too
― Mrs. Greenthumbs: How I Turned a Boring Yard into a Glorious Garden and How You Can, Too
“Here then may be lived a life of the senses so pure, so untouched by any mode of apprehension but their own, that the body may be said to think.”
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“The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
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