Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Gardens

Quotes about: Gardens

• On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Garden, Roots

• These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Kings, Men

• There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Love, Garden, Soul

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