All Quotes

"Clifton Collins Jr. - Boomer"

"William H. Macy - Arn Peeples"

"Will Patton - the narrator"

"Nathaniel Arcand - Ignatius Jack"

"There were once passageways to the old world; strange trails, hidden paths. You'd turn a corner and suddenly find yourself face-to-face with the great mystery, the foundation of all things. And even though that old world is gone now, even though it's been rolled up like a scroll and put somewhere, you can still feel the echo of it."

"Seeing Kate again felt as real as anything else in his life, even as he wondered if it really happened to him. He spent many days and evenings wandering the forests and fields of the region, looking for any sign of her. Though he found none, he spent the rest of his days waiting, so he would be there if she ever came back."

"When Robert Grainier died in his sleep sometime in November of 1968, his life ended as quietly as it had begun. He'd never purchased a firearm or spoken into a telephone. He had no idea who his parents might have been, and he left no heirs behind him. But on that spring day, as he misplaced all sense of up and down, he felt, at last, connected to it all."

"Newness of the experience."

"The world is intricately stitched together, boys. Every thread we pull, we will not know how it affects the design of things."

"We're but children on this earth pulling bolts out of the Ferris wheel, thinking ourselves to be gods."

"My family is everywhere there's a smiling face. Never been somewhere I didn't have some family there."

"Not too many folks I cross paths with more than once in this life. I see it is a blessing when they're brought back around."

"A tree was a friend if you let it alone. But the second the blade bit in, you had yourself a war and the tree was a killer."

"That's where all those myths come from, you know? All those flood stories. All those different religions all over the world. It's just the same story, different slants."

"You just go through what you go through."

"In the forest, every least thing's important. It's all threaded together. So you can't tell where one thing ends and another begins. If you really look at it, the little insects you can't even see, they play a role as vital as the river. The dead tree is as important as the living one. There must be something for us to learn from that."

"The world needs a hermit in the woods as much as a preacher in the pulpit."

"Joel Edgerton - Robert Grainier"

"Felicity Jones - Gladys Olding Grainier"

"Kerry Condon - Claire Thompson"

"w:Alfred Hsing - Fu Sheng"

"Chuck Tucker - Silent Man"

"Rob Price - Curious Logger"

"Beau Charles - Young Logger"

"Johnny Arnoux - Kootenai Indian"

"John Patrick Lowrie - Mr. Sears"

"Branden Lindsay - Elijah Brown"

"Oddly enough, modern gardens have become more and more scentless. Bigger, hardier, more beed flowers are the goal of the hybridizers, and while the new plants are often superior in many ways to old favorites, they are rarely more fragrant. Scent is a ghost you find in old gardens, or in plantings of old-fashioned varieties. It is also found aplenty in gardens for the blind, who are particularly attuned to scent, and in herb beds where the subtle scents of foliage are treasured."

"You just can't put roses in the ground and hope they'll thrive ... If you want a lot of show and color but no work, then plant easy things like that don't take much work."

"Lamb's quarters. '. How this weed got to be associated with so many animals I'll never know, but it also goes by the names pigweed, fat hen, and white goosefoot. An annual that likes any garden soil, it has ragged-edged leaves and grows as tall as 6 feet. On the plus side, it's easy to pull out and is delicious cooked like . But it grows very fast, and unless you consume an awful lot of creamed greens there is always too much of it."

"Why tussle with a when you can walk outside, spend time in fresh air and come in with an armful of fresh food?"

"One thing we can control, if we want to embark on it, is getting our own food supply. I think that, for a lot of people, it could be an economic necessity or improvement. In my case, it's much more the satisfaction of knowing how fresh it is, what's gone into growing it, how it tastes, the fact that it's right out there — I can go grab it — you know, that kind of thing."

"When we think of eating homegrown food during the cold season, we often think of staples such as potatoes squirreled away in the , or of vegetables like stashed in a cool, dry place. But many s are discovering the joys of harvesting fresh produce all winter long, which allows for feasts of cold-hardy crops that are just-picked and just right for the time of year. ... Winter fare is about leaves, stems, and roots, which mature more and more slowly as the weather cools and the days shorten. Better still, winter vegetables sweeten with the cold. If you’ve ever tasted a winter-pulled carrot or winter-cut , you’re familiar with the treasures winter gardening can bring. ... ... Winter has always been a good season for a wide array of crops in the southern states, and in the northern tier of the United States, you can grow the same crops if you use a winter-protection device to broaden your garden’s productive season. This might be a , a simple , the quick-hoop system, or just a layer or two of floating row cover, often called Reemay. All of these season-extension devices capture some of the earth’s natural warmth, especially at night, and block the chilling, drying effect of wind."

"From a small boy I had wanted only to be a and to work on the land. A hurdle-maker's life seemed to me to be ideal, your materials with hand tools in the woods and then making hurdles with hypnotic skill. As a student I had seriously considered becoming a thatcher. In an ideal world I would farm as well, but I had worked on farms and seen that only those with money had any chance of owning their own land and for me, possession was a large part of the draw. The only writing that I considered was fiction. It never crossed my mind to write about gardening, even though by then I had written — and destroyed — a couple of excruciatingly bad novels, and was facing the sneaking suspicion that I might not be any good at it."

"For the Japanese especially, gardens are an essential part of their cultural identity and their history can be measured out in them. In a land of earthquakes and s, gardens are often more durable — and more easily repaired — than buildings. That is not to say that they are easy for the Western visitor to understand or appreciate. Of all the countries I have visited, Japan remains the most enigmatic, drawing you just so close but no further. The cultural divide in the garden — as in almost all other walks of life — remain huge."

"One of the things that has always moved me, and this has often been said by people who are grieving, is that the rhythm of the seasons is a huge comforter. In the bleakest , you trust that spring will come, that the blossom will appear."

"... Two years ago, I was filming in Madrid for my BBC series on Spanish gardens and was struck by the dogs garden] at , designed by Álvaro Sampedro. Dogs had been very much a part of that design. I thought it was fun and nicely done and, when I got home to Longmeadow, my garden in , it made me think about the ways my dogs use the garden and how they react to it."

"I learned so much throughout my journey."

"The people have the right to democratically withdraw their trust in the authorities when the latter fail to fulfil their sovereign duties."

"Even I, as Bishop of Ayacucho, work as a missionary. In my diocese, in my territory, I have to go and evangelize, because there are areas that are difficult to reach, for geographical difficulties and distances. The people of these places have heard little of Jesus and the Gospel, and yet many need this message, because in their hearts wounds of violence are still alive."

"My biggest dream in life has always been to build a family I could call mine."

"To love, to fight, to stay. But now, we're learning to let go."

"Together, we're releasing that dream… so we can finally allow a new kind of peace, growth, and healing to enter."

"Thank you for holding space for our story. This is us, stepping into a new chapter with love, respect, and no regrets."

"Letting go doesn’t mean we failed, because what we had was real. And it gave us the greatest gift...Our Felize."

"Old Testament criticism was never bound by the same rules and prejudices as the study of China or of India, and vice versa."

"To focus not on our pains and traumas individually, but we will start communicating properly about Felize, the setup with Felize. To eat together as a family, play with her, spend time with her, to make an effort to be there for her, the both of us, with her…"

"Theologians like F. C. Baur resisted and followed Creuzer, insisting instead on a universal diffusionary history with its roots in the Orient. In his own two-volume Symbolik und Mythologie of 1824-5, Baur argued that world history was at once “‘a revelation of the divine (der Gottheit)” and “the evolution of Consciousness,” and neither of these processes had begun in Europe. Using Creuzer, Genesis, and the Zend Avesta, Baur traced the formation of the first mythologies back to a ‘‘primeval seat” [Ursiz] in “the Edenic highlands of Central Asia” between the Jaxartes and the Oxus, Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Stressing the similarities between religious ideas across cultures, Baur readily admitted Europe’s dependence on the Orient for its population and ‘‘a great portion of its culture.’’ This also allowed him to lay the foundations for what he believed to be a scientific history of religious one philosophy, one which would put the evolution of Christianity into proper perspective — without compromising its unique truth."

"Rather more idiosyncratically, the geographer Carl Ritter published a Creuzerian study of Europe’s peoples before Herodotus in which he suggested that the true source of religious ideas and of “‘civilization’s seeds” was not Egypt or South Asia but northern India. Here, all had shared a Buddha cult, one that included “a common belief in a single, highest God, a God of peace, and a belief in immortality, together with many dogmas, priestly teachings and priestly institutions, such as reincarnation, rebirth, the Flood, the final salvation... .” Religious sectarianism, however, had forced a Babel-like dispersal of this culture, provoking the wandering of Indian priests throughout Europe and Central Asia; they brought the Buddha cult with them, laying the foundations for a shared Graeco-oriental mythology ~— and also clearly laying the foundations for a later, Judeo-Christian revelation. Drawing heavily on Creuzer, as well as on the latter’s beloved late Greek sources, Ritter explicitly sought to decenter a Roman view of Europe’s prehistory by substituting one that insisted upon a shared primeval monotheism and the “common roots” of the ancient Thracians, Germanic tribes, Indians, Greeks, Scythians, and Persians."

"It is worth quoting Anthony Grafton’s summation of Scaliger’s assault on the prisca theologia presumptions of his contemporaries here, as Scaliger’s position strongly foreshadows the nineteenth-century philhellenist view of cultural relations in the ancient world: “In astronomy and astrology, it had been the Greeks, not the Babylonians and the Egyptians, who performed most of the observations and, above all, tabulated and systematized the results. The ancient Near East had been not a world of gold, populated by calm sages, but a world of iron, haunted by superstitious fears and only fitfully illuminated by the work of certain science- minded priests — themselves prone to spin out unfounded speculations.”’"