Paul Fleischman Quotes
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That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.
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You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.
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The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.
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A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.
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Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.
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The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.
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Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.
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Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.
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A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.
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