Maryrose Wood quotes

All books are judged by their covers until they are read. (Maryrose Wood)

As Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

Maryrose Wood

If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake.

Maryrose Wood

Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.

Maryrose Wood

There is no alarm clock like embarrassment.

Maryrose Wood

Plants make the air! Do you understand what that means? Our food, our air, our very lives come from the plants. How could they not be of divine origin, of divine intelligence? How can we deny that, in some essential way, they are no less than you or I?

Maryrose Wood

One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating people, highly skilled in the use of plants' power. They too understand nature's essence as divine. So much so that they do not think it is man's place to own the land at all. Imagine that - think of all the wars we would have missed!

Maryrose Wood

Elk have not been seen in Switzerland for many a year. In the interests of scientific accuracy, please strike the idea of elk from your mind. If you must, think of ibexes instead, a fierce and agile type of goat with great spiraling horns. Marmots will also do in a pinch, but under no circumstances should you think of elk. No. Elk. The elkless among you may now proceed.

Maryrose Wood

Maryrose Wood

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