Garden Quotes - Page 8

• In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Parenting, Discovery

  "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" (1974)

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• Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water come from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Children, Book

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• Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Flower, Fall

  John Bunyan (1851). “Christian Behaviour: A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity, the Fear of God, and an Exhortation to Unity and Peace to which is Added a Caution Against Sin”, p.75

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• I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Looks, Delight, Innocent

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.241

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• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

  Charles Baudelaire

  War, Party, Book

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• I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

  Boy George

  People, Bother

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• Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Children, Opportunity, Giving

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• There are many tired gardeners but I've seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at heart. Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. The one absolute of gardeners is faith. Regardless of how bad past gardens have been, every gardener believes that next year's will be better. It is easy to age when there is nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for, gardeners, however, simply refuse to grow up.

  Allan Armitage

  Death, Dream, Growing Up

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• A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Party, Book, Way

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• A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.

  William Kent

  Feelings, World, Shade

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• Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals.

  Henry Beard

  Animal, Numbers, Effort

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• He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

  Lucy Larcom

  Nature, Tree, Forests

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  Stop watering things that were never meant to grow in your life. Water what works, what's good, what's right. Stop playing around with those dead bones and stuff you can't fix, its over...leave it alone! You're coming into a season of greatness. If you water what's alive and divine, you will see harvest like you've never seen before. Stop wasting water on dead issues, dead relationships, dead people, a dead past. No matter how much you water concrete, you can't grow a garden.

  T. D. Jakes

  Past, Greatness, Issues

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• As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Long, Alive

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (1925). “In the Garden ...”

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• Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

  Alice Walker

  Life, Dance, Flower

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.30, Ballantine Books

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• A weed is but an unloved flower.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Weed, Flower, Acceptance

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1917). “The Collected Poems”

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• We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

  Joni Mitchell

  Peace, Hippie, Golden

  "Woodstock" (song) (1969)

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• God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Tree

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• Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Flower

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• Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Giving, Leaves Of Grass

  'Give me the splendid silent sun'

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• The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Agriculture, Goal, Perfection

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.14, New York Review of Books

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• A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

  Michael Pollan

  Space, Twists, Landscape

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.244, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

  Eudora Welty

  Grief, Flower, Writing

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• Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Essentials, Example

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “Essays: First Series”, p.321

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• To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Nature, Journey, Hiking

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