Walking the Hedge

 

Céad Míle Fáilte “One Hundred Thousand Welcomes” (pronounced ‘Kaid-Mee-la-Fawl-teh’)

Tine Bhríde is ea an bhladhm ar mo thinteán “The fire of Brighid is the flame on my hearth.”

Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin. “There’s no hearth like your own hearth.”

The kitchen is the heart of the home

“We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.” Joseph Conrad

“My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.” Pearl Bailey

We will be turned out to starve in the hedgerows! ~ Mrs. Bennet in Jane Austin’s in Pride and Prejudice

A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~ German Proverb

Love thy neighbour, but pull not down thy hedge. ~ John Ray

“a messy kitchen is a happy kitchen and this kitchen is delirious”

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. ~ Antoinette Brown Blackwell

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. ~ Blaise Pascal

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. ~ Blaise Pascal

“The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the ‘weal and woe’ as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.” Isabella Beeton

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. ~ Henry David Thoreau

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. ~ James Russell Lowell

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. ~ Linda Hogan

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. ~ Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter (1853 – 1890)

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember. ~ Philip Dunne

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees – just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it. ~ Sean Bean quotes

Sweet beast, I have gone prowling,
a proud rejected man
who lived along the edges
catch as catch can;
in darkness and in hedges
I sang my sour tone
and all my love was howling
conspicuously alone.

~ William DeWitt Snodgrass quotes (American Poet and Writer, b.1926)

 

I walked abroad,

And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge

Like a red-faced farmer.

I did not stop to speak, but nodded,

And round about were the wistful stars

With white faces like town children.

~ Thomas Ernest Hulme

 

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him. ~ Bible quote

The Saxon shits in his breech, The cleanly Briton in the hedge ~ Welsh Proverb

The road winds up the hill to meet the height/ beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight / And yet no man would foolishly contend/ that where he sees it not, it makes an end. ~ Emma Carleton

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture. ~ Stephen Gardiner 

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain. ~ Henry David Thoreau 

The herdsman comes to the pasture lands – what good are his ostentatious displays here? When your allotted time is up, you must go. Take care of your real hearth and home. ~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib 

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth – with the fire dead, the laughter stilled, and the light extinguished. ~ Unknown