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B2520. Quotable Gardner Paperback
The Quotable Gardener
Edited by Charles Elliot. 270pp. 6"x9". Retail Price $9.95.
SALE! A collection of wisdom, insight and humor of plants and planting, flowers and vegetables, gardens and gardening.
Both to encourage and inspire your lettering and your gardening. A great little gift.
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B2840. Proverbial Cat: Feline Inspriations
The Proverbial Cat: Feline Inspirations
By Sydney Hauser. 112pp. 7.5"x6.75". Hardcover.
NEW! Hausers delightful cat illustrations with apt calligraphic commentary are collected together. Facing pages contain quotes about cats. A great gift for all cat owners.
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B2681. Age Doesn't Matter (Quotes)
Age Doesn’t Matter Unless You’re a Cheese: Wisdom from Our Elders
By Kathyrn and Ross Petras. 2002. 409pp. 4"x6". Paper.
A collection of some of the best things that have been said about growing older from those who were already there when they said them.
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B2672. Breathing on Your Own
Breathing on Your Own
By Richard Kehl. 2004. 218pp. 5.5"x9.5". Paper.
Unlike most books of quotations, this is not a collection of familiar oft quoted words, but rather an original and deeply personal assemblage. Some of the unusual categories are:
Ambiguity, Confusion, Detachment, In-Between, The Innocent Eye, Invisibility, Lock and Keys, Mirrors, Naming, The Third Alternative, and Zero. "No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place." --Zen Proverb
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B2690. Haiku
Haiku
Selected and Edited by Peter Washington. Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets. 2003. 256pp. 4.5"x6.5". Hardcover.
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B2896. Love Letters to the Universe
Love Letters to the Universe: Quotations of Astonishment and Wonder.
By Richard Kehl. 2005. 83pp. 5"x9.5". Paper.
Explores the mystery of creation and celebrates its diversity. The selections come from myriad points of view scientific, religious, philosophical, and artistic. The quotations provoke, question, amuse, and illuminate; they tackle
the big questions, but with lightness.
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B2815. Nature Lover's Book of Quotations
A Nature Lover’s Book of Quotations
Compiled by Thomas Crider. 2000. 272pp. 5.25"x8.75".
Hardcover. Retail Price $29.00.
An impressive selection of nature quotations from John Muir, E.B.White, Oscar Wilde, Henry David Thoreau, William
Shakespeare, Plato, Barry Lopez, Thomas Jefferson, Mohandas Gandhi, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rachel Carson and Charles Darwin and many others. Quotations complemented by numerous wood engravings by Thomas W.Nason. Index. This beautifully produced volume makes a good gift as well as a great source of quotations! "The best book of nature quotations" -- N. Glenn Perret.
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B2123. Soul Would Have No Rainbow/Zona
The Soul Would Have No Rainbow if the Eyes Had No Tears
Compiled by Guy A. Zona. 1994. 128pp. 6"x6". Paper.
This book of American Indian proverbs was found at Ghost Ranch Calligraphy Retreat and the calligraphers quickly bought every copy the bookstore had. These are short sayings rather than long quotations.
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B1806. Sunbeams/Safransky, Sy
Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations
Edited by Sy Safransky. 1990. 8"x9". Paper.
A selection of thoughts and insights, some one sentence,
some a paragraph or more, and mostly not familiar ones.
These quotations were collected over the course of 10 years for a column in The Sun, a North Carolina publication. Not in categories so the right one will have to find you.
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B2632. Quotable Dad
B2632. The Quotable Dad. Edited by Nick Lyons & Tony Lyons.2002. 292pp. Hardcover.
A collection of 275 memorable quotations about the relationships between fathers and their sons and daughters – some wise, some thoughtful, some hilarious. The quotes range from the thoughts of an expectant father to the rewards and challenges of raising children, as well as musings on being a grandfather, culled from such fathers, sons, and grandfathers as Bill Cosby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Magic Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Groucho Marx, William Shakespeare, W.A. Mozart, Sigmund Freud, John Wayne, and Yogi Berra.
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