#volume

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. ↗

— Roberto Burle Marx

#aesthetic #also #artist #color #complex

It's not the coffee that unfurls our minds and spirits, but the meaningful conversation that accompanies it. It's not the coffee that lifts our eyes and awakens our bodies, but the time we take to make it. And it's not the coffee that prepares us for the day, but the encouraging words from those we love. ↗

— Sarah Lang

#love

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#concludes #does #embark #first #person

For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#beer #beverage #craft #experienced #fastest

There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud. ↗

— Wes Borland

#brand new #discussions #down #funniest #good

After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#after #brings #buy #competitive #dollar

Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#although #any #bring #change #changes

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#answer #assertions #commission #contradictions #experience

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#any #commerce #controls #country #industry

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#amount #appreciation #book #bookstores #changed