Planting A Garden Quotes

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

Robert Breault

Kids, Garden, Miracle

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A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

Doug Larson

Inspirational, Weed, Nature

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The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

Charles Dudley Warner

Men, Garden, Essentials

Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

George Eliot

Inspirational, Rain, Flower

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics

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He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

Lucy Larcom

Nature, Garden, Tree

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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

B. C. Forbes

Inspirational, Spring, Fall

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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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I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.

Sara Bonnett Stein

Flower, Garden, Thinking

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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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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Orson Scott Card

Funny, Work, Sarcasm

Orson Scott Card (2013). “Homebody: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

Thomas Jefferson

Garden, Tree, Serving Others

Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.238, Rowman & Littlefield

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What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

Donald C. Peattie

Weed, Garden, Definitions

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I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.

Peter Smithers

Weed, Garden, Plant

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Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Love, Garden, Eden

Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.10

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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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To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Charles Dudley Warner

Life, Men, Garden

Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Ambition, Garden, Plants Growing

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Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.

Julie Moir Messervy

Garden, Earth, Wonderful

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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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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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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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Carl Linnaeus

Motivational, Death, Nature

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A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Love, Jobs, Garden

Liberty Hyde Bailey (1925). “The Pruning-manual: Being the 18th Ed., Rev. and Reset, of the Pruning-book which was First Published in 1898”

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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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