Great Garden Quotes

• If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Educational, Book

  To Varro, in "Ad Familiares" IX, 4,

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• Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

  Luther Burbank

  Nature, Flower, Sunshine

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• Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

  Louise Erickson

  Funny, Hard Work, Garden

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• We come from the earth, we return to the earth,
  and in between we garden.

  Alfred Austin

  Garden, Earth, Return

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• There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

  Mirabel Osler

  Work, Garden, Occupation

  Mirabel Osler (2012). “A Gentle Plea for Chaos”, p.38, A&C Black

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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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• The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, Garden, Land

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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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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• Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Believe, Cutting

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1236, Delphi Classics

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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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• The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Garden, Hands, Clothes

  Texas Bix Bender (1999). “Don't Throw in the Trowel”, Gramercy Books

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• If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

  Robert Brault

  Garden, Joy, Imagine

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

  John Muir

  Wisdom, Nature, Autumn

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Garden, Hunters

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• The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

  Michael Pollan

  Zero, Garden, Thinking

  "Don't give up". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.

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• Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

  William Cowper

  Time, Spring, Fall

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• I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.

  Curtis Stone

  Home, Love Is, Garden

  Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2012.

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• My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

  Julia Roberts

  Mom, Garden, Time And Love

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• Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.

  Ken Wilber

  Motivational, Garden, Copies

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• Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content.

  Ken Wilber

  Garden, Self, Religion

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• The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair!

  David Berg

  Garden, Cities, Pyramids

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• The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate whether fried, baked, broiled or even eaten raw will form the foundation of a great garden industry.

  Robert Johnson

  Food, Eye, Garden

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• It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."

  Phillips Brooks

  Children, Father, Men

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.

  Thomas Moore

  Music, Garden, Soul

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