I was fully conscious, but there were no more thoughts.
“It stimulated him as grit stimulates an oyster.”
― How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer
― How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer
“I was onstage. And there is nowhere in the world I am more comfortable than on a stage.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“Inevitably the real garden with a growing family of children will be untidy, messy even, noisy and often destructive. It drives arch control freaks like myself mad. But I hate it when they are not there.2”
― My Roots: A Decade in the Garden
― My Roots: A Decade in the Garden
“But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“You need to see bare branches to know the full astonishing shock of the new leaves come next April. You need the flat, brown emptiness of the mixed borders to measure their summer fullness.”
― My Roots: A Decade in the Garden
― My Roots: A Decade in the Garden
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