Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

Understanding is a two-way street.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

Peace cannot be unilateral.

Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.

We are ever willing to accord to others that tolerant understanding that we wish others to accord to us.

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.

I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn't make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden is always the story of a person.

It's all about togetherness and to pay the other the necessary respect. If you do that, then we all would feel better. It is not always a taking but also a giving in both directions.

As I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.

Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing!

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.