A nice afternoon painting a garden sign.
This is a quotation from Voltaire’s novel, Candide. If you’ve read the novel, you know it, if you haven’t, it’s a satirical novel written in the 18th century by Voltaire. Basically, the main character, Candide, goes through EVERYTHING one could in life to an exaggerated (and humorous) degree. At the end, he and his friends are living in Turkey where they live peacefully and simply. Candide’s philosopher/old teacher, expounds based on his philosophical theory that “this is the best of all possible worlds” and goes into a long rant about how all the crazy stuff that’s happened has been a long “concatenation of events” leading to the present moment, basically the “Everything happens for a reason” argument. Candide simply responds, “…excellently observed, but let us cultivate our garden.”
Love this one — so metaphoric!
Thank you! The book it came from is my desert island book.
Love the variety of wildflowers. And the bees 🙂
I love the quote and the sign is beautiful
Thank you! 🙂
Aha! No, I haven’t read Voltaire but I have read Martha Kennedy. 🙂
That actually makes you quite rare and special (but you already were) Candide is a lot of fun to read if you get some time. 🙂
I just might. 🙂
Love Candide and the sign! But the bees are the best they make the sign just that much better!
How can anyone have a garden without bees? I have to clean up the lettering a little. 🙂
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