Economic crises?

"When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity." ~John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959

"We never know the worth of water till the well is dry." ~Thomas Fuller

" Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. " ~Author Unknown

" The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one." ~Paul Heyne

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"The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." ~William Wordsworth

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"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven." ~Johannes A. Gaertner

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"Walked for half an hour in the garden. A fine rain was falling, and the landscape was that of autumn. The sky was hung with various shades of gray, and mists hovered about the distant mountains - a melancholy nature. The leaves were falling on all sides like the last illusions of youth under the tears of irremediable grief. A brood of chattering birds were chasing each other through the shrubberies, and playing games among the branches, like a knot of hiding schoolboys. Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail."
- Henri Frederic Amiel

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" Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." ~John Muir

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"Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed." ~Lewis Gannit

It's true.....pulling a weed in a restaurant flower box, reaching to eliminate a weed at a friends house while the invitation was only for tea.....a sickness I admit to. Most of my companions and friends understand this and try not to pay too much attention to my addiction for weed pulling and dead heading wherever I am.

"Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?" ~Adlai Stevenson

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"Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which man truly gives his heart." - Karen Capek

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"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows."   - Doug Larson

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"It seems to me that life is the catalyst that either...puts the poet in us.....or, drives the poet out of us."  Marion MacDonald