Eden Quotes - Page 9

• The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

  Freya Stark

  Fashion, Art, Garden

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• One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set it. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.

  Jonathan Raban

  Drama, Fall, Apples

  Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial

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• The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. You know, Eve was the first person who thought for herself. And she still gets a bad rap. I named my daughter after her.

  Susan Sarandon

  Daughter, Wisdom, Rap

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• The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Flower, Future, Past

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• We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Victory, Example, May

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• Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve.

  Helen Cresswell

  Garden, Sea, Weather

  Helen Cresswell (1987). “Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga”, Viking Childrens Books

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• I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredients like avocado and banana with the usual suspects like kale and spinach. Delicious as they are, they're low calorie, and the drink names are catchy: I Have Balance, I Have Energy, and my favorite, I Have Calm.

  Gayle King

  Kale, Names, Balance

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• Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve.

  Thomas King

  Taken, Writing, Artist

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• Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable

  Lance Morrow

  Memories, Night, Forests

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• I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.

  Max Lucado

  Grateful, Believe, Garden

  "An Interview With Max Lucado". Interview with David Jones, thebrinkonline.com.

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• The ancestral deed is thought and done,
  And in a million Edens fall
  A million Adams drowned in darkness,
  For small is great and great is small,
  And a blind seed all.

  Edwin Muir

  Fall, Darkness, Done

  EDWIN MUIR (1960). “COLLECTED POEMS”

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• Silent rushes the swift Lord
  Through ruined systems still restored,
  Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless,
  Plants with worlds the wilderness;
  Waters with tears of ancient sorrow
  Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow.
  House and tenant go to ground,
  Lost in God, in Godhead found.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Apples, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.158

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• God created man for fellowship... The fall of man ruined that and Paradise that is, the garden of Eden was lost, but on the new earth paradise will be regained and God will again fellowship with mankind in a unique sense.

  Paul P. Enns

  Fall, Unique, Men

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.97, Moody Publishers

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• The new earth will be like Eden. ..the deserts will gush with water. ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish.

  Paul P. Enns

  Beautiful, Land, Water

  Paul P. Enns (2011). “Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About”, p.126, Moody Publishers

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• If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

  I. L. Peretz

  Husband, Garden, Wife

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• We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Block, Believe, Mean

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.176

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• Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming--beautiful, but dead.

  Charles Villiers Stanford

  Beautiful, Flower, Roots

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• Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Men, Garden, Roots

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• It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that science will make the world a very good imitation of hell.

  Maude Royden

  Science, Garden, World

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• ... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

  Umberto Eco

  Dimensions, Ethical, Scene

  Umberto Eco (2002). “Five Moral Pieces”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.

  Peter Cook

  Garden, Swamps, South

  "Fictional character: George Spiggott". "Bedazzled", www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Garden, Horror Stories, Land

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• Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

  Terence McKenna

  Struggle, Stories, Plant

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• Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Forever, Fit, Should

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.125, eKitap Projesi

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• Adam, who said to our Lord in the Garden of Eden, I got more ribs - you got more broads? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Garden, Ribs, Dinner

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