Garden Quotes - Page 4

• A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.

  Richard Briers

  Beauty, Jobs, Forever

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• The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, Land, Pieces

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• When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Health, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics

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• I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Careers

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• The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.

  Joel Salatin

  Home, Long Ago, Kitchen

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• I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.

  Frank Frankfort Moore

  Thinking, Voice, Sunrise

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  This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Inspiring, Monday

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Patience, Teacher

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange.

  John Kehoe

  People, Different, Littles

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• A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.

  William H. Coles

  Beautiful, House, Prison

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• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

  Ben Stein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Spiritual, Health

  "Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Messenger of Love" by Lennie Kronisch, Yoga Journal, Issue 11, pp. 18-20, November - December 1976.

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• I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

  Martha Smith

  Weed, Nature, Marijuana

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• I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Cat, Vegetables

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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

  Environmental, Vigor, Want

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.

  Mary Cantwell

  Dream, Thinking, Desire

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• Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Sweet, Flower

  William Shakespeare, James R. Siemon (2009). “King Richard III: Third Series”, p.240, A&C Black

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• I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.

  Peter Smithers

  Weed, Plant, Hardy

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• In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator, and no two shall reach the same conclusion; nor shall we, any more than other creative workers, be ever wholly satisfied with our accomplishment. Ever a season ahead of us floats the vision of perfection and herein lies its perennial charm.

  Louise Wilder

  Art, Lying, Apology

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• Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

  Paul Harvey

  Rain, Men, Civilization

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  Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Flower, Perfection

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.127

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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 secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

  Luther Burbank

  Love, Knowledge, Grandchildren

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

  Lewis Grizzard

  Summer, Food, Thinking

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