Version 2 on March 15, 2013. PDF Format, 530Kb,
53
pages, Printable, Read Only Version, Complete Version, Free.
Quotations
Bibliography
Heart Chakra
Cloud Hands Blog Hatha Yoga Tantra Chi Kung
Seeing Hearing Tasting Smelling Touching Hands
The Good Life Lifestyle Advice from Wise Persons Gardening
Touch, Touching, Feeling, Hands, Body, Sensations
"The root of all health is in the brain.
The trunk of it is in emotion.
The branches and leaves are the body.
The flower of health blooms
when all parts work together."
- Kurdish folk wisdom
"Hands are the heart's landscape."
- Pope John Paul II
"The mind's first step to
self-awareness must be through the body."
- George Sheehan
"There is a lovable quality about the actual
tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless."
- Gertrude Jekyll
"Movement is a medicine for creating change in
a person's physical, emotional, and mental states."
- Carol Welch
"The mind has exactly the same power
as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."
- Colin Wilson
"Green fingers are the extension of a
verdant heart."
- Russell Page
"I'm struck by the insidious,
computer-driven tendency to take things
out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain
of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles
are unreliable, but they represent several million
years of accumulated finesse."
- Brian Eno, musician and composer, Wired 1/99, p. 176
"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head,
and the heart of man go together."
- John Ruskin
"Without the body, the wisdom of the
larger self cannot be known."
- John Conger
"The human body is vapor materialized by
sunshine mixed with the life of the stars."
- Paracelsus
"Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us
have long ago lost our bodies."
- Ken Wilbur
"Movement, to be experienced, has to be found
in the body, not put on like a dress or a coat."
- Mary Starks Whitehouse
"The pressure of the hands causes the
springs of life to flow."
- Tokujiro Namikoshi
"I would have touched it like a child
But knew my finger could but have touched
Cold stone and water.
I grew wild,
Even accusing heaven because
It had set down among its laws:
Nothing that we love over-much
Is ponderable to our touch."
- W. B. Yeats
"The power of love to change bodies is
legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around ...
Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing."
- Larry Dossey
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the
intellect has struggled with in vain."
- Carl G. Jung
"The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable
to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape."
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
"The human body is not an instrument to be
used, but a realm of one's being to be experienced, explored, enriched and, thereby, educated."
- Thomas Hanna
"Technology is the knack of so
arranging the world so that we don't have to experience it."
- Max Frisch
"The best and most beautiful things in
the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
- Helen Keller
"Think with the whole body."
- Taisen Deshimaru
"The essence of education is the education of
the body."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"Shall I not have intelligence with
the earth?
Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself."
- Henry David Thoreau
"This cabbage, these carrots, these
potatoes, these onions ... will soon become me. Such a tasty fact!"
- Mike Garofalo,
Pulling Onions: The Maxims of
Gardening
The artist Arcimboldo drew a "Portrait of the Emperor Rudolph
II as Autumn."
This Man made out of Vegetables and Fruits is a delightful
characterization of the real truth in this case.
"When you touch a body, you touch the
whole person, the intellect, the spirit, and the emotions."
- Jane Harrington
"Listen to what you know through your
body."
- Frances Payne Adler
"I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Touching - Thoughts and Quotations for Gardeners
Tools - Thoughts and Quotations for Gardeners
Pulling Onions: Thoughts of a Gardener
Hands and Touching: Reflections, Studies, Bibliography, Quotations
"We have five senses in which we glory and
which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and
unlauded ... unconscious, automatic."
- Oliver Sacks
"There is deep wisdom within our very flesh,
if we can only come to our senses and feel it."
- Elizabeth A. Behnke
Version 2 on March 15, 2013. PDF Format, 530Kb,
53
pages, Printable, Read Only Version, Complete Version, Free.
"He who feels it, knows it more."
- Bob Marley
"Emotion always has its roots in the
unconscious and manifests itself in the body."
- Irene Claremont de Castillejo
"The body must be credited with an immense
fund of know-how."
- Deepak Chopra
"The messages that make up our emotional and
mental life must be routed through the tissues of the body."
- Robert Marrone
"We have to understand that the world
can only be grasped by action not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."
- Jacob Bronowski
"Emotional release and muscular release are
interdependent - one does not occur without the other."
- Elaine Mayland
"When you stand with your two feet on
the ground, you will always keep your balance."
- Tao Te Ching
"No matter how closely we look, it is
difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function."
- Moshe Feldenkrais
"He that would perfect his work must first
sharpen his tools."
- Confucius
Touch, Touching, Feeling, Hands, Body, Sensations
Fitness the Dynamic Gardening Way: A Health and Wellness Lifestyle.
By Jeffrey Restuccio. Balance of Nature Publications, 1992.
ISBN: 1880886103. Expands and integrates the nutritional,
physical and psychological benefits of gardening. Techniques from the martial arts,
aerobics and weight training are incorporated into gardening motions. Dynamic Gardening is
not a quick and easy fix but a life-long approach to fitness.
A Natural History of the Senses. By Diane Ackerman.
New York, Vintage Books, 1990. Index, 331 pages. A highly
informative and beautifully written tour of our sensual awareness of the world and
ourselves.
Qigong, Chi Kung, Dao Yin,
Chinese Yoga
Version 2 on March 15, 2013. PDF Format, 530Kb,
53
pages, Printable, Read Only Version, Complete Version, Free.
Green Way Research, Red Bluff,
California
© 2001-2012
I Welcome Your Comments, Ideas,
Contributions, and Suggestions
E-mail Mike Garofalo in Red Bluff, California
A Short Biography of Mike Garofalo
This webpage was first published on the Internet in January, 2001.
This webpage was last modified or updated on June 30, 2012.