Garden Quotes - Page 13

• I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Thinking, Religion, Pulling Weeds

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• I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.

  Sara Bonnett Stein

  Flower, Thinking, Errors

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• The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest.

  Stephen Covey

  Time, Law, Water

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• People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

  Dan Barker

  Beauty, People, Suffering

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• Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.

  H. E. Bates

  Girl, Curves, Seductive

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• The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

  Sylvia Browne

  Weed, Fear, Rip

  Sylvia Browne (2009). “Soul’s Perfection (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.271, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

  Joseph Addison

  Song, Animal, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1810). “The Spectator”, p.20

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• Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

  Stephen Fry

  Tree, Wickedness, Taste

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• The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Love, Jekyll, Seeds

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• Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Earth, Jew

  Thomas Jefferson (1801). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.244

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• A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

  May Sarton

  Death, Failure, Loss

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

  Michael Pollan

  Nature, Food, Might

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.64, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Nature, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.379, Rajpal & Sons

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• Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

  May Sarton

  Giving, Essentials, Proportion

  May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.66, Open Road Media

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• We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

  Walter Scott

  Art, Children, Design

  "Periodical Criticism".

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• Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.

  Lewis Gannett

  Weed, Drinking, Eye

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• I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

  Robert Bridges

  Summer, Clouds, Rainbow

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• Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path

  Jean Anouilh

  Men, Littles, Path

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.43, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.

  W. C. Sellar

  Love You, Essentials, Half

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• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Procrastination, Rose

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Flower, Mind, Self Improvement

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• Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Stay Strong

  "The Wright Style". Book by Carla Lind, p. 3, 1992.

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• The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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