Quotes About Pruned

I strongly suggest that you cease talking about your ailments or giving them a name. The only sap from which they draw life is your attention and fear of them. Like the above-mentioned psychologist, you can become a good mental surgeon; then your troubles will be cut off like dead branches are pruned from a tree.

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

Time is an amazing enigma in which seeds that were planted can turn into a vibrant garden if properly pruned.

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

She had seen a huge hunchback ogre with meaty forearms and a pruned face crossing a courtyard with an anvil under one arm.

and she had altogether the air of a woman clipped and pruned by severe discipline, an under–brightness shining through from the depths which that discipline had not yet been able to reach.

In a garden of clutter, nothing would grow There would be no butterflies, only clutterflies And heaps of disarray, every which way No nourishment anywhere, not anything pruned Just lots of useless stuff, everywhere strewn

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look like a chair.