4 Peat Sayings

#1. Twelve-year-old Islay. Good stuff if you liked peat, smoke, earth, rain, despair, and the Atlantic Ocean, and who doesn't like that?

Adrian McKinty

#2. Deathlessness should be arrived at in a ... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

E.B. White

#3. First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Epictetus

#4. I use a pick in my hair without force.
You use a lawn mower-you got peat moss.

Extra P

#5. Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.

Laozi

#6. I- I love you like a love song, baby
And I keep hittin' repeat-peat-peat-peat

Selena Gomez

#7. In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#8. how delicious he smelled. It was a bold, provocative mix of wool and leather, pure man and something exotic, perhaps sandalwood, the whole laced with a trace of peat smoke.

Anonymous

#9. So, anyway." Jackal's impatient voice broke through our cold standoff. "Not to interrupt this riveting family drama, but are we going to go hunting anytime soon, or are you two going to glare at each other until the sun comes up?

Julie Kagawa

#10. On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think, and act in a language adapted for discussing trees, rocks, and automobiles
as well as poetry and emotions.

F. David Peat

#11. Landscape is more than flat land covered by floodwater, the seeping of peat bogs, a river of liquid pewter viewed from a sentry tower. It's an influence on what a person values, what she is willing to sacrifice or argue for.

Susan Vreeland

#12. Find pleasure in the path, even if the destination can't be foreseen.

L. Peat O'Neil

#13. If we added up all of the special 'avoidance' diets, no one could eat anything. Many people are ruining their health by avoiding too many foods." -Ray Peat

Matt Stone

#14. The worst case scenario sees the Amazon rainforest burning, huge amounts of methane being released by Siberian peat bogs and so on - by the time today's six year olds are 60, such a scenario would see global warming already out of control.

Mark Lynas

#15. For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.

Berenice Bejo

#16. MEDITATION is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentry into society

Thich Nhat Hanh

#17. Disease is a manifestation of human thought because it is ideas, worldviews, and beliefs that create the conditions in which a society can be riddled with disease, strife, and poverty, or can continue in health and harmony.

F. David Peat

#18. Beauty is where the beheld butterfly
disappears from sight.

R.H. Peat

#19. The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.

Kathy Whitworth

#21. Chemical properties in the peat stop anything from rotting, so bogs are the "bank vaults" of Irish history, protecting whatever is put in them. A bog-cutter recently described finding a slab of butter, still edible after more than a hundred years.

Carmel McCaffrey

#22. couldn't be more Scottish if it was painted blue and smelled of burning peat and your ginger sister.

Christopher Moore

#23. Standing within a peat bog in Dingle, you can't help wondering what Ireland was like before you and the other primates scrambled up upon its shores. When viewed from space, did it glow like a furry emerald within a sea of blue, the terrestrial equivalent of a massive marine plankton bloom? We

Hope Jahren