Spring Gardening Quotes - Page 2

• The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.

  William Howard Adams

  Eye, Garden, Long

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• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Adversity, Winter

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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• Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

  Doug Larson

  Nature, Spring, Groundhog Day

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• A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Teacher, Garden

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• A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

  May Sarton

  Death, Failure, Loss

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

  Dorothy Parker

  Spring, Women, Memorable

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• The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.

  Ruth Stout

  Weed, Garden, Clothes

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Summer, Time, Spring

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

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