Quotes
| quote | source | themes |
|---|---|---|
| (25) Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than rainment? (26) Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? (27) Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? (28) And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: (29) And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. (30) Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? (31) Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (32) (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. (33) But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. (34) Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. |
💬 | the bible (King James) 📌 Matthew 6:25-34 |
religion, perspective |
| A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren’t strictly organised by their publication date. They’re inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren’t refined or complete - notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They’re less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we’re used to seeing. | 💬 | A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden, Maggie Appleton |
note-taking, meta, learning |
| A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all | 💬 | Georges Bernanos |
personal values, martial arts, research, |
| All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way | 💬 | Anna Karenina |
perspective |
| Anyone looking to extend human cognition must engage just as deeply with emotion. | 💬 | Exorcising us of the Primer, Andy Matuschak |
personal values, education, |
| anything worth doing is worth doing badly | 💬 | G.K. Chesterton |
personal values, perspective |
| Are all of the mes that had the experiences that I've forgotten dead already? | 💬 | Let's Talk About Death, Hank Green 📌 1:38 |
death and dying, identity, autonomy, philosophy |
| Gardening is about claiming a small patch of the web for yourself, one you fully own and control. | 💬 | A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden, Maggie Appleton |
note-taking, meta, internet, autonomy |
| Gardens are imperfect by design. They don’t hide their rough edges or claim to be a permanent source of truth. | 💬 | A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden, Maggie Appleton |
note-taking, internet, meta |
| Gardens are never finished, they’re constantly growing, evolving, and changing | 💬 | A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden, Maggie Appleton |
note-taking, internet, meta |
| Gardens are organised around contextual relationships and associative links | 💬 | A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden, Maggie Appleton |
note-taking, meta |
| Gardens present information in a richly linked landscape | 💬 | A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden, Maggie Appleton |
note-taking, meta |
| Have you ever considered, bridgeman, that bad art does more for the world than good art? Artists spend more of their lives making bad practice pieces than they do masterworks, particularly at the start. And even when an artist becomes a master, some pieces don’t work out. Still others are somehow just wrong until the last stroke. You learn more from bad art than you do from good art, as your mistakes are more important than your successes. Plus, good art usually evokes the same emotions in people—most good art is the same kind of good. But bad pieces can each be bad in their own unique way. So I’m glad we have bad art, and I’m sure the Almighty agrees. | 💬 | Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer, 📌 Chapter 61 |
learning, perspective, culture, |
| He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken. Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway. | 💬 | Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson |
optimism, perspective, |
| In a world without hope, the smallest acts of kindness can bring light to the darkest corners | 💬 | Wool |
optimism, kindness, perspective, |
| In many ways the Stream is best seen through the lens of Bakhtin’s idea of the utterance. Bakhtin saw the utterance, the conversational turn of speech, as inextricably tied to context. To understand a statement you must go back to things before, you must find out what it was replying to, you must know the person who wrote it and their speech context. To understand your statement I must reconstruct your entire stream. And of course since I can’t do that for random utterances, I mostly just stay in the streams I know. To use a post-modern turn of phrase, the Stream is “inhospitable to strangers.” If the Garden is exposition, the stream is conversation and rhetoric, for better and worse. |
💬 | The Garden and the Stream- A Technopastoral (essay), Mike Caulfield 📌 2| the garden and the stream |
internet, social media, relationships, learning |
| once you are given a tool that operates effortlessly — but only in a certain way — every choice that deviates from the standard represents a major cost | 💬 | How the Blog Broke the Web |
learning, creativity, internet, identity, meta |
| the blog won the internet, and by winning became invisible | 💬 | The Garden and the Stream- A Technopastoral (keynote), Mike Caulfield |
internet, social media, relationships, note-taking, meta |
| The excitement here is in building complexity, not reducing it | 💬 | The Garden and the Stream- A Technopastoral (essay), Mike Caulfield 📌 1| a year in the garden |
note-taking, internet, learning, education, social media, meta |
| The garden helps us move away from time-bound streams and into contextual knowledge spaces | 💬 | A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden, Maggie Appleton |
note-taking, meta |
| The Garden is the web as topology. The web as space. It’s the integrative web, the iterative web, the web as an arrangement and rearrangement of things to one another. Things in the Garden don’t collapse to a single set of relations or canonical sequence... We create the garden as a sort of experience generator, capable of infinite expression and meaning. |
💬 | The Garden and the Stream- A Technopastoral (essay), Mike Caulfield 📌 2| the garden and the stream |
note-taking, internet, social media, learning, meta |
| the material becomes meaningful when I debate it with others or when I bring the ideas into some vivid question in my life. | 💬 | Exorcising us of the Primer |
learning, personal values, education, |
| We all die in the end, you see. So I guess what truly matters is just how well you've run | 💬 | Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson |
death and dying, personal values, perspective, |
| we’re all stories in the end. Just make it a good one | 💬 | Doctor Who |
death and dying, personal values, |
| What we control...is our actions once fate puts us there | 💬 | Wool |
optimism, kindness, perspective, |
| When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. | 💬 | Everything, Everywhere, All at Once |
optimism, perspective, personal values, |
