#i

Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beauty

We must return to nature and nature's god. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#god #must #nature #return

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#cent #fifteen #greatest #less #most

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#attorney #hangman #judge #jury #laws

How can I die? I'm booked. ↗

— George Burns

#die #how #i

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#evolution #forward #happy #healthy #i

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time. ↗

— Tory Burch

#any #dogs #farm #german #given

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#chemically #done #means #other

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#doubt #ignorant #science #teaches #true

I don't think I could be terribly demanding even if I wanted to be. ↗

— Stephanie Zimbalist

#demanding #even #i #terribly #think