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If you would be happy all your life,
plant a
garden.
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I'm still devoted to the garden. . . although an
old man,
I am but a young gardener.
Thomas Jefferson
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I
do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden
should
fit its
owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should
be
neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.
Gertrude
Jekyll
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In one's garden a person may be one's own artist
without apology or explanation. Here is one spot
where each
may experience the "romance of possibility.
Louise Beebe Wilder
I have never had so many good ideas, day after day,
as when I worked in the garden.
John Erskine
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Flowers always make people better, happier, and
more helpful;
they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank
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A garden really lives only insofar as it is an
expression of faith,
the embodiment of a hope and a song of
praise.
Russell Page
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Of course, the character of my garden
is also
determined by things beyond
any human decision, mine or anyone
else's.
Allen Lacy
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| Those who plant trees plant hope.
Lucy Larcom
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It's difficult to think anything but pleasant
thoughts while eating a home-grown tomato.
Lewis Grizzard |
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There can be no other occupation like gardening
in
which, if you were to creep up behind someone
at their work, you
would find them smiling.
Mirabel Osler
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My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance
that come
and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet
music.
Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully
through the bars.
Alexander Smith
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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden
as
one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It
gives
us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom
of Nature, and
suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.
Cicero
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To cultivate a garden is.
. . to
go hand in hand with Nature
in some of her most beautiful
processes, to
learn something
of her choicest secrets, and
to have a more intelligent
interest
awakened in the beautiful order
of her works elsewhere.
Christian Bovee
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When the world wearies and society ceases to
satisfy there's always the garden.
William Affleck
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The work of a garden bears visible fruits--in a
world
where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.
Pam Brown |
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Native
Americans all over the U.S. and Canada use a term they call
the Three Sisters to describe the Native American way of life
through the gardening technique of planting corn, beans and squash
together on the same mound. These Three Sisters - corn,
beans
and squash - supplement and complement each other. The vines
of the bean plant grow up the corn stalk. The huge leaves of
the squash vines keep the ground moist for all of the roots.
The nutritious vitamins from each of the plants escapes
into the soil so that they each benefit from one another.
Deborah
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| I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than
theology.
Vigen Quoiran |
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Those
who plant gardens, plant happiness.
Chinese proverb
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I
use the word "aim" perhaps too loosely, for I surely
will have many aims
in connection with every garden I attempt; the first perhaps is
quite simply
to leave a place more beautiful than I find it.
Russell Page |
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When I go into my garden, all the cares,
perplexities, and griefs of existence,
all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with
the heart
of a little child that asks nothing beyond its present moment of
innocent bliss.
Celia Thaxter |
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Gardening
is the art that uses flowers and plants as the paint,
and the soil and sky as the canvas--working with nature provides
the technique.
Elizabeth Murray |
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St.
Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked
what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die
before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my
garden," he replied.
Louis Fischer |
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Where
would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?
Chuang Tzu |
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All gardens,
even the most native and naturalistic, benefit from
the hand of an artful pruner. In this season where the garden is
poised for the green flood of springtime, remember that our
gardens
are co-creations, shared with mother earth. And like any good
mother, she expects you to tidy up your room.
Tom Spencer |
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For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens
in burning stars,
but on the earth he has sowed his name in tender
flowers.
Jean Paul Richter
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One
can get lost in their garden and the rest of the world ceases to
exist,
if only for a while. Anger dissipates with every shovel of dirt
moved, pleasure
is found in the simplest forms, excitement is felt as each tiny
plant matures
and then triumph with the harvest of the first tomato of the
season. The
love of gardening never goes away. Even if someone is unable to
garden
themselves, they enjoy the gardens of others.
Renee Hogan
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