Gardening Quotes - Page 2

• He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

  Lucy Larcom

  Nature, Garden, Tree

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• No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!

  John Muir

  Stars, Perfect, Water

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.208, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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

  May Sarton

  Garden, Giving, Essentials

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

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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, Garden

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• Garden as though you will live forever.

  William Kent

  Garden, Forever, Gardening And God

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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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• The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.

  Joel Salatin

  Home, Garden, Long Ago

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, People, Earth

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

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• Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Garden, Environmental, Vigor

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Garden, People, Tree

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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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• In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Believe, Garden

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

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Love, Garden, Jekyll

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• Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Garden, Doe

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Exercise, Garden, Imagination

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• Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

  Alfred Austin

  Horse, Food, Journey

  "Fictional character: Alex Blake". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 5: "The Good Earth", www.imdb.com. October 31, 2012.

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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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• I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

  Martha Stewart

  Garden, Thinking, Effort

  Martha Stewart (1991). “Martha Stewart's gardening, month by month”, Clarkson Potter

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• God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Garden, Firsts

  Essays "Of Gardens" (1625)

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• Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.

  Karel Capek

  Real, Passion, Heart

  Karel Capek (2002). “The Gardener's Year”

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• Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.

  Wendell Berry

  Independent, Garden, Thinking

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• Gardening is not a rational act.

  Margaret Atwood

  Garden, Rational

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Sunshine

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• A garden is never so good as it will be next year.

  Thomas Cooper

  Time, Garden, Years

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