Garden Quotes - Page 22

• As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It is like planting a garden. You do not cause the seeds to grow. To grow is their natural purpose in life.

  James Hunter

  Leader, Growth, Purpose

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• The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced in the pages of these volumes-including that of our contemporary biological view, which becomes an effective mythic image the moment we recognize its own inner mystery. By the same magic, every god that is dead can be conjured again to life, as any fragment of rock from a hillside, set respectfully in a garden, will arrest the eye.

  Joseph Campbell

  Eye, Simple, Views

  Joseph Campbell (1983). “Historical Atlas of World Mythology: The way of the animal powers”, Vanderbilt Univ Department of

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• In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

  Alexander Smith

  Bars, Care, Gates

  Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”

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• In a well-made garden every day is new.

  Allen Lacy

  Made, Wells

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• The gardens I love best are those that are still affectionately tended by the people who own them and who made them - who planned and planted and replanned and replanted them, who dug in the dirt and moved hoses and watched the gardens change with the cycle of the seasons and over the passage of years.

  Allen Lacy

  Love Is, Years, People

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• Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Joy, Tools, Kind

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1934). “Gardener's handbook, successor to The gardener: brief indications for the growing of common flowers, vegetables and fruits in the garden and about the home”

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• The very best garden is a new one, on virgin ground. Plants leap out of that spot.

  Janet Macunovich

  Plant, Spots, Leap

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• There's no "right way" to garden, only what suits each person and place.

  Janet Macunovich

  Way, Suits, Persons

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• If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.

  Janet Macunovich

  Hands, Watches, Way

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• The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection. Having got the plants, the great thing is to use them with careful selection and definite intention.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Numbers, Doe, Use

  Gertrude Jekyll (1964). “On Gardening”

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• To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

  Louise Wilder

  Rocks, Landscape, Architect

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• A garden is not a picture, but a language.

  Henry Mitchell

  Language

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.72, Indiana University Press

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• Plan your garden on paper. Mistakes made on paper won't cost you much in time or money.

  Elsa Bakalar

  Mistake, Cost, Paper

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• I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.

  Allen Lacy

  Plant, Walks

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• The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it.

  Beatrix Farrand

  Essence, Looks, Should

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• For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries were now so plentiful that... I made 287 lbs of jam..."

  Bee Dawson

  Jam, Made, Strawberries

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• Wood's not natural mulch for a woodland garden. Do you see forest trees shatter into a zillion pieces and fall? No. They fall, then decompose, then spread.

  Janet Macunovich

  Fall, Tree, Pieces

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• But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That place is the private garden.

  Allen Lacy

  Order, Choices, Way

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• Not all introductions worked well. Rabbits were an unmitigated environmental disaster. Unchecked by any natural predator, they bred at a staggering rate and chewed their way across vast areas of pastureland as well as any garden that came their way. Attempts to control them by introducing ferrets, weasels and stoats did much more harm than good. Although these predators probably killed a reasonable number of rabbits, they also devastated populations of kiwi and raided the nests of flighted birds.

  Bee Dawson

  Numbers, Bird, Environmental

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• When possums were introduced in 1837 to start a fur industry, no one predicted that these Australian neighbours would naturalize with destructive enthusiasm, wreaking havoc on gardens and bush alike. Up to 20 million possums a year were killed during the height of the fur trade, but this barely checked their rapid expansion.

  Bee Dawson

  Years, Expansion, Fur

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• I have heard people say, "I garden in lieu of therapy, but therapy would be cheaper." I believe gardening's worth the price since it's at least as effective in curing head and heart of what ails us.

  Janet Macunovich

  Believe, Heart, People

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• A garden is mainly ...a space around which interests can be accumulated.

  Graham Stuart Thomas

  Space, Interest

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• I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.

  Richard Briers

  Couple, Lovers, Silent

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• A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.

  Rosemary Verey

  Winter, Tests, Absolutes

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• Spirituality is not easy to define, but you can tell when it is present. It is the fragrance of the garden of the Lord, the power to change the atmosphere around you, the influence that makes Christ real to others.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Real, Atmosphere, Spirituality

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.34, Moody Publishers

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