Jane Borodale Quotes

#1. The only certain way to forge new understanding it to carry out investigations for oneself.

Jane Borodale

#2. So much of what we do in life stays unexplained

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#3. When I am out in my garden or in the fields ... , I think if anything, we are just earth ... We are earth, walking about, eating it. We are composed of the soil, but free to wander. When we dig, we dig at ourselves.

Jane Borodale

#4. Nothing good was learnt too swiftly. Knowledge should be a purposeful accumulance of observed experience, applied and tested to the full.

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#5. What a waste of beauty, what a waste of knowledge a sudden death can inflict, like spilling something vital away into dry soil.

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#6. Clarity! Accuracy! Think of your words as a key to fit into the lock of your meaning. Cast them with precision. That key should then be swift and perfect in achieving its aim. Well shaped talk is a release from the indefinite. It is explanation. Preparation. Nothing more.

Jane Borodale

#7. I do not need the debris of your mind to furnish mine.

Jane Borodale