Gardens Quotations
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| There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. | |||
| - Alfred Austin | |||
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| Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow. | |||
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| You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. | |||
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| God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart. | |||
| - Karel Capek | |||
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| Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. | |||
| - Orson Scott Card | |||
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| I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden. | |||
| - Abraham Cowley | |||
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| Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. | |||
| - Marcelene Cox | |||
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| How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. | |||
| - Benjamin Disraeli | |||
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| It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. | |||
| - James Douglas | |||
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| I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. | |||
| - John Erskine | |||
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| Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. | |||
| - Thomas Fuller | |||
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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 | |||
| Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. | |||
| - Nathaniel Hawthorne | |||
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| 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. | |||
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes | |||
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| In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. | |||
| - Frank Mckinney Hubbard | |||
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| A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. | |||
| - Charles Lamb | |||
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| It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing. | |||
| - Eleanor Perényi | |||
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| Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. | |||
| - May Sarton | |||
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| The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. | |||
| - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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| It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. | |||
| - Robert Louis Stevenson | |||
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| Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. | |||
| - Henry David Thoreau | |||
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| We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike. | |||
| - Evelyn Underhill | |||
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| In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. | |||
| - Abram L. Urban | |||
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| What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. | |||
| - Charles Dudley Warner | |||
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| Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. | |||
| - Walt Whitman | |||