Garden Quotes - Page 10

• Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

  Robert Breault

  Kids, Miracle, Trying

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• It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Rain, Flower

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics

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• A good garden may have some weeds.

  Thomas Fuller

  Motivational, Weed, May

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• All gardening is landscape painting.

  William Kent

  Beauty, Design, Landscape Painting

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• A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

  Roberto Burle Marx

  Artist, Color, Shapes

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• I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Nature, Flower

  Claire Joyes, Claude Monet (1975). “Monet at Giverny”, Wh Smith Pub

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• I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

  Pawan Kalyan

  Gardener, Wanted

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• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

  Kin Hubbard

  Order, Vegetables, Gardener

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  A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Memories, Perfect

  Twitter post from Feb 23, 2015

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• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Nature, Flower, Philosophical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Would Be, Plant, Ifs

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• Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.

  Julie Moir Messervy

  Earth, Wonderful, Blank

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• To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?

  Beverley Nichols

  Life, Earth, Spades

  Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.17, Timber Press

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• When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.

  Camille Claudel

  Beach, Ideas, Void

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• Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Beautiful, Sight, Singing

  History of England (1911) "The Glory of the Garden"

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• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Family, Children, Flower

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.37, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

  Beau Bridges

  Flower, Vegetables, Orchids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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• Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

  John Evelyn

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  John Evelyn (1729). “Silva: or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions”

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• When your garden is finished I hope it will be more beautiful that you anticipated, require less care than you expected, and have cost only a little more than you had planned.

  Thomas Church

  Beautiful, Hope, Essentials

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• Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Love, Eden, Essentials

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.10

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• Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Insects, Summertime

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Weed, Names, Plant

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The garden that is finished is dead.

  H. E. Bates

  Finished, Gardening, Garden Love

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