Barrie Simpson

“Amongst the best known of these plants are peaches, peonies, chrysanthemums, camellias, gardenias, azaleas, forsythias, wisteria, and crabapples, to mention but a few. And the development of the modern repeat-flowering roses would not have occurred had the so-called monthly roses not been brought to Europe from Chinese gardens.”
― Amitav Ghosh, Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories

“literally willing to take ‘anything goes’ to the point of creating a catastrophe for all of humanity, just as opium traders were once willing to let millions of people fall into addiction on the pretext that there existed a law of the market that dictated it.”
― Amitav Ghosh, Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories

“Map out your future—but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. —Jon Bon Jovi”
― Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

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― Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America