Garden Quotes - Page 11

• A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, Nature, Morning

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

  David Hobson

  Patience, Eye, Joy

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• If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Motivational, Death, Nature

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• A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.

  Tim Smit

  Weed, Men, Arrogance

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• Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life.

  Myron Kaufmann

  Life, Believe, Helping

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• God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Perfection, Age

  Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.

  Victoria Glendinning

  Weed, Flower, Attention

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• When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.

  Frank Arthur Swinnerton

  Flower, Done, Failing

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• Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Real, Silly, Agriculture

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.252

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• I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

  Robert Breault

  Gazing, Purpose, Sufficient

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• Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

  Francis Cabot

  Time, Flower, Circles

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• I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

  Michael Fish

  Grandchildren, Tree, Fish Tanks

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• Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
  By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade,
  While better men than we go out, and start their working lives
  By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Weed, Men, Knives

  1911 'The Glory of the Garden'.

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• God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

  Abraham Cowley

  Cities, Cain, Firsts

  "The Garden" l. 44 (1668) See Cowper 5

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• I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with

  Suzy Bogguss

  Home, Play, Decorating

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• I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

  Brian May

  Swimming, Lucky, Kind

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• The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

  Eden Ahbez

  Home, Heart, Sky

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• If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

  Fran Drescher

  Empowering, Path, Ifs

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• I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

  People, Collaboration, Made

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• They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!

  Louise Jameson

  Laughing, Stories, Path

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• Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Flower, Hieroglyphics

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.

  Luis Barragan

  Beauty, Beautiful, Design

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• I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

  Voltaire

  Men, Eden, Born

  "Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories".

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• The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Men, Essentials, Done

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Beauty, Giving, Jekyll

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.277, Cambridge University Press

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