Rainy quote day

I know...Dylan is playing in the distance, cats sleep in their cozy beds, flowers & steaming coffee on the desk & I am sorting through a pile of treasures...here's one more I found:

From Oscar Wilde's De Profundis:

"With freedom, flowers, books and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?"

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"...spring always seeming to one as if the flowers had been in hiding, and only came out into the sun because they were afraid that grown-up people would grow tired looking for them and give up the search..."

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"To me it is so much so that at the close of each meal I carefully eat whatever crumbs may be left on my tin plate, or have fallen on the rough towel that one uses as a cloth so as not to soil one's table; and I do so not from hunger--I get now quite sufficient food--but simply in order that nothing should be wasted of what is given me. So one should look on love."

Adulthood - by Mark Jenkins

I know, I've been digressing from the garden stuff, but I was cleaning up some files and I found this quote (which I happen to love) from an old Outside magazine article, circa 1999:

"Adulthood is an insidious process of accretion. If you're not watchful, you begin to grow a shell, a carapace that you are expected to carry lightly: the rigid, high-stress hull of safety, security, status, status quo. The thicker, the better, right up until it crushes you. On the inside, whether you can still feel it or not, your soul is trying to claw its way out."

Quote from Silent Spring

Along with the possibility of the extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm--substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.

Rachel Carson

Silent Spring, 1962

"If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything."

Ancient Proverb

So well put...

As we grow up, we put away our laughter and our silliness and our childish noises, the great sensory hilariousness of our young lives. We pick up a few notions about proper behavior, like what books to read and how to go about getting married and buying a home and being polite and having cocktail parties...and the next thing you know, the little child--who was also an enormously alive sensory apparatus--is just another boring adult going to work in a seersucker suit with a briefcase.

John Rosenthal, from Amazing Conversations.