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One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination how can we be very far from the beginning?

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Francis Cabot Lowell
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Category: Gardening

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
  • 2. At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although of course I adore them too.
  • 3. In my old age I'll be in L.A.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Lorne finally said Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
  • 2. It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.
  • 3. Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is many companies don't have great imagination but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.

3 Anger

  • 1. He took over anger to intimidate subordinates and in time anger took over him.
  • 2. The intoxication of anger like that of the grape shows us to others but hides us from ourselves.
  • 3. Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
  • 2. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.
  • 3. The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken – it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.
  • 2. Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
  • 3. In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
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