Vegetable Garden Quotes

• A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

  Gertrude Stein

  Food, Garden, Vegetables

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.46, Random House

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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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• Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

  E. B. White

  Garden, Vegetables, Revolution

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• It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Summer, Food, Garden

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• Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Garden, Care, Gardening

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• 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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• In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

  Kin Hubbard

  Garden, Order, Vegetables

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• I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who are no longer strangers, but friends who delight in the edible rewards offered from a garden they discovered together. Imagine small strips of land between apartment buildings that have been turned into vegetable gardens, and urban orchards planted at schools and churches to grow food for our communities. The seeds of the urban farming movement already are growing within our reality.

  Greg Peterson

  School, Reality, Garden

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• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

  Doug Larson

  Life, Hilarious, Food

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• An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Laughter, Food

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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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• I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.

  Joan Miro

  Garden, Thinking, Vegetables

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• ... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Garden, Thinking

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.208, Faber & Faber

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• Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wise, Food, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.25, 谷月社

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• The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.

  Doris Lessing

  Summer, Garden, Eggplant

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• I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Summer, Taken, Garden

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Over 120 Short Stories Including Rare Sketches From Magazines of the Renowned American Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.703, e-artnow

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• Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.

  S. J. Perelman

  Love, Maturity, Squash

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• I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Grateful, Garden, Vegetables

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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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• I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

  Kelli Williams

  Growing Up, Animal, Garden

  "Actress Kelli Williams". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 12, 2010.

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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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• I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly?

  Jay Kay

  Beautiful, Home, Garden

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• I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don't think they should rip up the Rose Garden, because that's something that I love. They should probably dig up another patch and grow some vegetables there.

  Martha Stewart

  Rip, Garden, Thinking

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• This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own, I was making a completely different garden than the one that my mom has. They don't look like they came from relatives. Hers is a very productive and pragmatic vegetable garden, and mine is a ridiculous overabundance of useless plants. It doesn't feed anybody, it doesn't serve any purpose.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their midday meal-a scrumptious bowl of hot, sticky porridge-he had mucked out the stable stalls, milked a cow, been pecked by three separate hens, weeded a vegetable garden, and fallen into a trough.

  Julia Quinn

  Garden, Vegetables, Interesting

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