Orchard Quotes

• What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.

  William Lawson

  Garden, Tree, Religion

  Gervase Markham, William Lawson (1668). “A Way to Get Wealth: Containing Six Principall Vocations, Or Callings, in which Every Good Husband Or House-wife May Lawfully Imploy Themselves ...”

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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 am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Healing, Tree

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.133, Counterpoint Press

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• Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.

  Walt Whitman

  Autumn, Giving, Juicy

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.57, New York Review of Books

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• Sometimes our thoughts turn back toward a corner in a forest, or the end of a bank, or an orchard powdered with flowers, seen but a single time on some happy day, yet remaining in our hearts and leaving in soul and body an unappeased desire which is not to be forgotten, a feeling that we have just rubbed elbows with happiness.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Happiness, Flower, Heart

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• No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That's where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That's where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Inspirational, Life, Sadness

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• In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Flower, Bird

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.118

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• Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Home, Gardening

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.324 (first published 1864).

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• I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money.

  Steven Herrick

  Hard Work, Hard, I Can

  Steven Herrick (2004). “A Place Like this”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Sleep, Simplicity

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• You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

  Khalil Gibran

  Giving, Tree, May

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

  Rachael Ray

  Children, Years, Apples

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• Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.

  Ezra Cornell

  Apples, Yesterday, Tree

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• Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Confidence, Self, People

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.60, BookBaby

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• Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Money, Tree, Grows

  "Heapin' Helping of True Grizzard: Down Home Again with Lewis Grizzard".

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• Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Summer, Song

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile. You cannot change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. You can, however, change tomorrow's fruits. But to do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots.

  T. Harv Eker

  Change, Roots, Tree

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 27, 2012

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• My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Mother, Memories, Father

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• You would not go into an apple orchard and eat the weeds so why would you go into your day and feast on worries?.

  Pat McBride

  Weed, Apples, Worry

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• I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent of peppers roasting over a fire, or what. I do know that flavors work their own ways under the skin, into the heart of longing. Where my kids are concerned I find myself hoping for the simplest things: that if someday they crave orchards where their kids can climb into the branches and steal apples, the world will have trees enough with arms to receive them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Friday, Growing Up, Kids

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• But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so tireless in serving generous emotions. It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races.

  Willa Cather

  Strong, Heart, Son

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• I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you'll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind.

  Woody Guthrie

  Moon, Light, Dust

  Song: Pastures Of Plenty

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• I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of it. Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn't have to give us cherry blossoms you know. He didn't have to make apple trees and peach trees burst into flower and fragrance. But God just loves to splurge. He gives us all this magnificence and then, if that isn't enough, He provides fruit from such extravagance.

  Lynn Austin

  Love, Spring, Flower

  Lynn Austin (2001). “Hidden Places: A Novel”, p.210, Bethany House

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• This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke.

  Jane Grigson

  Food, Garden, Vegetables

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Fruit Book”, p.27, U of Nebraska Press

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• Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

  Julius Sterling Morton

  Science, Tree, Humanity

  "Challenges in Implementing Corporate Governance: Whose Business is it Anyway". Book by John Zinkin (p. 183), November 8, 2011.

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