A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. – D. Elton Trueblood
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. – Liberty Hyde Bailey
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding ones own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss. – Edward Dowden
Many of us believe that we need health care reform. That being said – Americans felt like they werent being listened to. There were a lot of people across the political spectrum who said we dont want a one-size-fits-all healthcare plan. – Timothy Griffin
Since I was a kid, Ive had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties – but Id never really touched on dark Americana. – Robert Plant
