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A Sharky Simple Sunday

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“Look, Chief, you can’t go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn’t evil. It’s not a murderer. It’s just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy.”
― Peter Benchley, Jaws

“Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.”
Brian Skerry

“Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly white. Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear, And he keeps them out of sight.” – Kurt Weill

“Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.” – Douglas Adams

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“Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep and teach our muscles to work without thinking and I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Don’t try to get anything out of it, because you won’t. Don’t try to make use of it, because you can’t. And that’s the point. Just walk, see, sit down if you like. And be. Just be, whatever you are with whatever you have, and realise that that is enough to be happy.
There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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“It is such a happiness when good people get together — and they always do.”
― Jane Austen

“Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Who wouldn’t want to get married in a room full of love stories?”
― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

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“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.” — Rudyard Kipling

“Gardening is cheaper than therapy, and you get tomatoes.”                – Unknown

“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” -Sigmund Freud

“Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That’s the fun of them. You’re always learning.” – Helen Mirren

 

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“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it” —Mark Twain

“Them as can do has to do for them as can’t. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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Simple Sundays

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“Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.” – Thomas Aquinas

“You know what I’m sick of? Using my brain. All day long it’s people and words and stress and meetings and books that you don’t remember you’re not really into until you open them on the train home and compromise and sometimes I just want to look at a picture of a dress. Followed by a picture of some cupcakes. And then a kitten.”- Robyn Wilder

“It does good also to take walks out of doors, that our spirits may be raised and refreshed by the open air and fresh breeze: sometimes we gain strength by driving in a carriage, by travel, by change of air, or by social meals and a more generous allowance of wine.” – Seneca

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

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“The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.” -Czeslaw Milosz

“All we have of freedom, all we use or know – This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.” -Rudyard Kipling

“”Remember upon the conduct of each depends on the fate of all.” -Alexander the Great

“Dignified and respectful quietude speaks much louder than pomp and circumstance when it comes to remembering those who died.” Alan Colmes

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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
― George Gordon Byron

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
― William Shakespeare

“Despite all their flaws, zoos wake us up. They invite us to step outside our most basic assumptions. Offered for our contemplation, the animals remind us of nature’s impossibly varied schemes for survival, all the strategies that species rely upon for courtship and mating and protecting the young and establishing dominance and hunting for something to eat and avoiding being eaten. On a good day, zoos shake people into recognizing the manifold possibilities of existence, what it’s like to walk across the Earth, or swim in its oceans of fly above its forests—even though most animals on display will never have the chance to do any of those things again, at least not in the wild.”
― Thomas French, Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives

Simple Sunday and the Birthday Rose
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Simple Sunday and the Birthday Rose

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I thought that I had posted a picture of my birthday rose, but it was apparently eaten by the interwebs. The featured picture this time should be it. My poor Dad was very sad not to have seen it. Sorry Dad!

We did some more gardening prep today. Fancy was extremely excited to help us dig and is currently passed out next to me, simply exhausted by all the smells. Here’s some gardening quotes to go along with our projects.

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”
— Carl Linnaeus

“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” – Douglas Adams

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn

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Simple Sunday- Bookin’ It

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“I’ll have enough books when they fill my room like the stars fill the sky.”
― E.V. Fairfall

“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
― Anna Quindlen

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”
― Dr. Seuss