No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Say ‚Toronto‘ or ‚Ontario,‘ and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology – looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

Y’all are so cute and y’all talk so proper over here. I love England.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Coffee is a language in itself.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it’s surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, ‚all options are open‘ – meaning the threat of war.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It’s one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It’s a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.

London is a roost for every bird.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

The earth laughs in flowers.