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"More grows in the garden than the gardener sows."
..Old Spanish Proverb
"It seemed to my friend that the creation of a landscape-garden offered to the proper muse the most magnificent of opportunities. Here indeed was the fairest field for the display of the imagination, in the endless combining of forms of novel beauty."... Edgar Allen Poe
"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy."...Lope de Vega
"How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening."...Alexander Smith
"What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our starts the flowers of the heaven."...A.J. Balfour
"Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting." ...Wordsworth
"With landscaping, you never seem to reach a point when you feel the job is complete."...Author unknown
"Out of gardens grow fleeting flowers but lasting friendships."...Beverly Rose Hopper
"Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green."...Henry David Thoreau
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"Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom."...Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
"To see a world
in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wildflower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour."
...William Blake
"He plants to benefit another generation."...Caccilius Stativs
"Not every soil can bear all things."...Virgil
"Growth is the only evidence of life."
...John Henry Cardinal Newman 1864
"The poetry of the earth is never dead."...John Keats
"If man cheats the earth, the earth will cheat man."...Chinese
"Everything is good in its season."...Italian
"Rain in the spring is as precious as oil."...Chinese
"When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener."...Polish
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"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."
...Rudyard Kipling
"I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion."...Emile Zola
"Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste."
...William Shakespeare
"Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden."
...William Shakespeare, Henry IV
"The only two herbicides we recommend are cultivation and mulching."...Organic Gardening Magazine
"Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world."...Virgil A. Kraft
"With understanding, those we love will certainly flower."...Thich Nhat Hanh
"As the gardener, such is the garden."...Hebrew proverb
"Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year."...Richardson Wright
"You know you are a hard-core gardener if you deadhead flowers in other people's garden."...Sue Careless
"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done. Whether you like it or not."...Charles Kingsley
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful: they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul."...Luther Burbank
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"A gardener learns more in the mistakes than in the successes."...Barbara Borland
"No winter lasts forever. No spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep. And we know it."
...Hal Borland
"The garden that is finished is dead."
"The wise gardener anticipates June in January."
"Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle."
"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
"Watering is like telling our spouse, "I love you." the more you do it, the better the result."
"All nature wears one universal grin."...Henry Fielding
"All nature seems at work."...Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come."...Chinese proverb
"All that in this delightful garden grows,
Should happy be, and have immortal bliss."
...Edmond Spencer
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"All art is but imitation of nature."...Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Come forth into the light of things,
Let nature be your teacher."...William Wordsworth
"A garden is a lovesome thing!"...Thomas Edward Brown
"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature."...Zeno
"Let us give nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do."...Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
"Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."
...William Cooper
"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."
...Wendell Berry
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."...Johann VonGoethe
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"A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart."
...Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons (1964)
"Each garden has its own surprise."...Susan Allen Toth, My Love Affair with England (1992)
"True gardeners cannot bear a glove
Between the sure touch and the tender root."
...Mary Sarton, As Does New Hampshire (1967)
"A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself."...Mary Sarton, At Seventy (1984)
"And add to these retired Leisure,
That in trim gardens take his pleasure."
...John Milton, Il Penseroso
"If the grass on the other side of the fence appears greener...it must be all the fertilizer they are using."
...Kevin Rodowicz
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"Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development."...William Longgood
"Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay."...George Meredith
"I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree."
..Joyce Kilmer, "Trees"
"A friend in the garden is a treasure whose worth cannot be measured except by the heart."...Anon
"Come and visit me sometime. My flowers would like to meet you."
"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven."...Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies (1928)
"Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame he roots for not being blossoms."...Buckminster Fuller
"A fool looks for dung where the cow never browsed."...Proverb from Ethiopia
"Rosemary only grows where the mistress is master."
"Plant the seeds of friendship, then watch the blessings grow!"
"Anyone can have dirt. Gardener's have soil."
"Gardening is an exercise in optimism."
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"If you are a gardener, you can always put 'Plant Manager' on your resume."
"Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?"
...Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)
"You may go down to the garden."
...(Peter Rabbit's mother) Beatrix Potter
"You may go into the field or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden."
...(Peter Rabbit's mother) Beatrix Potter
"My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws."...Claude Monet
"Every garden is a chore sometimes, but no real garden is nothing but a chore."...Nancy Grasby
"Gardens cannot be considered in detachment from the people who made them."...Derek Clifford
"The best thing that can come out of a garden are gifts for other people."...Jamie Jobb
"Plants teach us about the human condition, what it means to be fully human. Pets do the same thing."
...Judith Handelsman
"You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature."...William Rotsier
"The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose."...Heda Bejar
"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."
..Arabian Proverb
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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."...John Keats
"You don't have to garden just for yourself. You have to share it."...Augusta Carter
"I live in the garden; I just sleep in the house."...Jim Long
"More in a garden grows than what the gardener sows."...Spanish Proverb
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."...Aristotle
"Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand."...Mother Teresa
"Like people, plants respond to extra attention."
...H. Peter Loewer
"Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child."...Barbara Damrosch
"There is a garden in every childhood, and enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again."...Elizabeth Lawrence
"Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration."...Lou Erictson
"Friendship is a sheltering tree."...Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness."...Lois L. Kaufman
"The earth is as wonderful as we are willing to make it. It's about choices."
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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. Mrs C.W. Earle
It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun. - Henry Ward Beecher
Former British Prime Minister Sir Benjamin Disraeli said, “How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.”
Emily Bronte
“The garden walk with weeds o’ergrown,
I love them –
How I love them all!”
"Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay." -- George Meredith
"Nature abhors a garden." Michael Pollan
We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. -Dorothy Day
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
-Sir Walter Scott 1828
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Nothing is as interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1890
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson 1860
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.- John Ruskin 1851
My Garden is a confusion of kitchen and parterre, orchard and flower garden, which lie so mixt and interwoven with one another, that if a foreigner, who had seen nothing of our country, should be conveyed into my garden at his first landing, he would look upon it as a natural wilderness, and one of the uncultivated parts of our country.
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
- Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. - Thomas Jefferson, 1790
" This is June, the month of grass and leaves . . . already the aspens are trembling again, and a new summer is offered me. I feel a little fluttered in my thoughts, as if I might be too late. Each season is but an infinitesimal point. It no sooner comes than it is gone. It has no duration. It simply gives a tone and hue to my thought. Each annual phenomena is reminiscence and prompting. Our thoughts and sentiments answer to the revolution of the seasons, as two cog-wheels fit into each other. We are conversant with only one point of contact at a time, from which we receive a prompting and impulse and instantly pass to a new season or point of contact. A year is made up of a certain series and number of sensations and thoughts which have their language in nature. Now I am ice, now I am sorrel. Each experience reduces itself to a mood of the mind. " - Henry David Thoreau, June 6, 1857
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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, The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book, 1971
"I love being asked to identify plants, and I don't know which gives me more pleasure: to know what they are or not to know what they are."
...Elizabeth Lawrence, Through the Garden Gates, 1990
"The best is yet to be."...Robert Browning
"The only two herbicides we recommend are cultivation and mulching."...Organic Gardening Magazine
"But each spring...a gardening instinct, sure as the sap rising in the trees, stirs within us. We look about and decide to tame another little bit of ground."...Lewis Gantt
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"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."...Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg (1986)
"Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow."
"The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world."...Vita Sackville-West
"I'm not aging, I just need repotting."...Anonymous
"The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner."...Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)
"Gardening is not a rational act."
...Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg (1986)
"I want death to find me planting my cabbages."...Montaigne, Essays Book I (1880)
"I was determined to know beans."...Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it."...Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden (1871)
"Growing in the fast lane."...Unknown
"From the ground up."...Unknown
"If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk;
happy for a long time, fall in love;
happy forever, take up gardening."
...British comedian and playwright Arthur Smith
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"There is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."...Dave Barry
"If there is magic on this planet it is contained in water."...Loren Eiseley
"It takes a long time to grow old friends."...Anonymous
"Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of
God."...Thomas Jefferson
"Hope for the future is at the heart of all gardening."*
"You know you are a real gardener when you think compost is a fascinating subject."*
"Plants that are about to be removed have a habit of suddenly doing better."*
"Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent."*
"Gardening is a mirror of the heart."
"How lovely is the silence of growing things."
"You hosta have 'em."
"He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men."
...A.J. Downing "Fruits & Fruit Trees of America" 1845
"A weed is only a misplaced plant."
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"Cultivate the garden within."
"He who plants a tree loves others besides himself."
"As Rosemary is to the spirit, so Lavender is to the soul."
"As the Garden Grows, so does the Gardener."
"One who plants a garden, plants happiness."
...Chinese proverb
"My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus."...Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
"All gardeners know better than other gardeners."
...Chinese proverb
"To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables."...Prince Charles (b 1948)
"We have not inherited the earth from our parents; we have borrowed it from our children."...L. Brown, 1981
"Time began in a garden."
"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves"
"He who plants a tree, plants a hope."
"Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization."
..Sir Albert Howard (19th century agriculturist)
"Keep is small, keep it varied."...Bill Mullison's "Golden Rule" of garden design
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"Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another."...Edumond Burke
"I garden, therefore I am."
"If you would have a mind at peace, a heart that cannot harden, go find a door that opens wide upon a lovely garden."
"Tickle the earth with a hoe, it will laugh a harvest."
"Always remember the beauty of the garden, for there is peace."
"You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt."
"In the garden, my soul is sunshine."
"We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden."
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."...Marcel Proust
"So many seeds - so little time."
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"An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life."
"Where but in a garden do summer hours pass so quickly?"
"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes."
...Charles Dudley Werner, "My Summer in a Garden" (1870)
"If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden"
...Chinese Proverb
"Show me your garden and I shall tell you who you are."...Alfred Austin (1857-1929)
"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends."...Kozuko Okakura
"Hope never dies within a true gardener's heart"...Anonymous
"Though an old man, I am but a young gardener."
...Thomas Jefferson
"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 Culross Peattie
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"When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden."...Minnie Aumonier
"The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession."...Phyllis McGinley
"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
"And puck 'til time
and times are done,
The silver apples of the moor,
The golden apples of the sun."
...William Butler Yeates
"Nothing is more the child of art than a garden."
...Sir Walter Scott
"Carpe rutila" (Seize the spade)
..David Hobson
"A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul."...Sadi
"Kiss of the sun for pardon.
Song of the birds for mirth.
You're closer to God's heart in a garden
Than any place else on earth."
...Dorothy Frances Gurney
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"Nothing is worth more than this day."...Mary Engelbreit
"Bloom where you are planted."...Mary Engelbreit
"What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights."...William Lawson from the book "The Country Housewife's Garden" (1617) This was the first garden book written expressly for women.
"I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden."...John Erskine
"What is a weed? A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."...Ralph Waldo Emerson 1878
"Gardening is the purest of human pleasures."
...Francis Bacon
"I thank you for the seeds...Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity."
..Thomas Jefferson, 1822
"Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's."...Mary Cantwell
"One can never have enough clay pots."
"Friends are flowers in the garden of life" .... Anon
"The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world" ...Vita Sackville-West
"There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments."
..Janet Kilburn Phillips
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"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous"...Aristotle
"Whoever makes a garden
Has, oh so many friends!
The glory of the morning,
The dew when daylight ends.
...Douglas Malloch
Kind hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the flowers,
Kind deeds are the fruits,
Take care of your garden
And keep out the weeds,
Fill it with sunshine
Kind words and kind deeds.
...Longfellow
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."
...Gertrude Jekyll
"A garden is a friend you can visit any time."
"Cares melt when you kneel in your garden."
"To boldly grow where no one has groan before."
..David Hobson
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To him who in the love of nature holds communion with her visible forms, she speaks a various language; for his gayer hours she has a voice of gladness, and a smile and eloquence of beauty, and she glides into his darker musings, with a mild and healing sympathy, that steals away their sharpness, ere he is aware.
William Cullen Bryant
