We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile. — J. R. R. Tolkien
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. — Alan Alda
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware. — John Muir
Adventure is not outside man; it is within. — David Grayson
In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. — Albert Camus
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute? — Thornton Wilder
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. — Walt Whitman
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. — Kurt Vonnegut
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. — Christopher McCandless
In God's wildness lies the hope of the world. — John Muir
The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences. — Jon Krakauer
Short Eden Quotes
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. — John Steinbeck
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. — John Steinbeck
Do not spread the compost on the weeds. — William Shakespeare
There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension. — John Steinbeck
Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple. — Vicente Fox
Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life. — Francine Rivers
This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. — John Steinbeck
All great and precious things are lonely. — John Steinbeck
[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from? — Cesare Borgia
After all, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds! — Bettie Page
Eden Image Quotes
Garden Of Eden Quotes
In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise. — Cesare Borgia
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? — Chuck Palahniuk
And all this time when you could have been romping around the f*cking Garden of Eden f*cking hot girls and eating steaks and living a beautiful life you were worried about... — Duncan Trussell
The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust. — Donna J. Haraway
Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden — D.T. Suzuki
Being in the nude isn't a disgrace unless you're being promiscuous about it. After all, when God created Adam and Eve, they were stark naked. And in the Garden of Eden, God was probably naked as a jaybird too! — Bettie Page
Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant. — Mark Twain
The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand. — Max Lucado
Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man. — John Galt
It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition." Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden. — Harold MacMillan
East Of Eden Quotes
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. — John Steinbeck
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. — John Steinbeck
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. — John Steinbeck
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. — John Steinbeck
To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous. — John Steinbeck
Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread. — John Steinbeck
But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest. — John Steinbeck
A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill? — John Steinbeck
There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty. — John Steinbeck
To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. — John Steinbeck
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. — Clarence Darrow
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang? — Countee Cullen
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. — Henry Van Dyke
What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days, in which the evening and morning were named, were without sun, moon and stars? What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise, in Eden, Like a Husbandman? — Origen
People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from a theological point of view, goes back to the Garden of Eden, that there is always this corrupt gene waiting to be activated that we inherited from the very beginning. I don't believe in that theological excuse. — Wole Soyinka
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden. — Percy Wynham Lewis
See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed. — Charles Spurgeon
The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as He loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life. — Francine Rivers
Fake is as old as the Eden tree. — Orson Welles
It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love. — Timothy Leary
If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything? — Daniel Tosh
I was floating around in the Garden of Eden, thrilled to be a human being at the Human-Be-In, knowing the world could be saved if we loved one another. I was draped in flowers, bestowed upon me by my brothers and sisters. I was laughing, loving, breathing Princess of Peace. — Pamela Des Barres
If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned. — Jon Gries
The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. — Frank Zappa
Little deeds of kindness
Little words of love;
Help to make earth an Eden
Like the heaven above. — Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. — Amos Bronson Alcott
The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there. — Peter Cook
We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art? — Rudyard Kipling
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise. — William Shakespeare
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