Arboretum Quotes

#1. The only member of the inner sanctum of licensed sorcerers absent was Patrick of Ludlow, who was busy moving an oak for a wealthy client eager to alphabetize his arboretum.

Jasper Fforde

#2. I used to live in Seattle, as did Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee. I lived near the arboretum. Very often I would take walks late at night by Lake Washington, because I found it very easy to meditate there.

Frederick Lenz

#3. A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural form and a renewed sense of wonder at the variety of the world we inhabit.

John Burnside

#4. I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.

Tony Horwitz

#5. I have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman.

Alice Meynell

#6. Oh, we were a degree or two hotter than improper.

Peter Carey

#7. A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.

Max Tundra

#8. It is said, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent upon him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

Mark Twain

#9. A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

Honore De Balzac

#10. Natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society.

Rachel Carson

#11. Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

Ally Carter