Garden Quotes

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Jane G. Swissholm: “Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine, or flower.” more

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May Sarton: “Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett: “I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.”

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Dave Barry: “Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”

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Alfred Austin: “Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.”

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Helen Hayes: “All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.”

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James Russell Lowell: “A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”

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Luther Burbank: “A flower is an educated weed.”

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Dorothy Frances Gurney: “The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.” more

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Germaine Greer: “A garden is the best alternative therapy.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson: “It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”

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Emily Dickinson: “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.”

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Thomas Jefferson: “Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.”

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Thomas Fuller: “No garden is without its weeds.”

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Thomas Fuller: “Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. Gnomologia, 1732”

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Thich Nhat Hanh: “May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”

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Sir Walter Scott: “Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.”

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Lou Erickson: “Gardening requires lots of water -- most of it in the form of perspiration.”

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Thomas Jefferson: “Though an old man I am but a young gardener.”

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Oliver Wendell Holmes: “On every stem, on every leaf ... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.”

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Phyllis McGinley: “The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.”

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Elizabeth Murray: “Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.”

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Thomas Moore: “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.”

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Benjamin Disraeli: “How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens.”

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Marcel Proust: “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

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Rudyard Kipling: “Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -- 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.”

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William Wordsworth: “Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.”

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