Gardening And God Quotes - Page 2

• It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Rain, Flower

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics

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• A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Love, Jobs, Garden

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1925). “The Pruning-manual: Being the 18th Ed., Rev. and Reset, of the Pruning-book which was First Published in 1898”

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• It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Spring, Fall

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• To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

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• How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

  Alexander Smith

  Heart, Garden, Desire

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition

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• Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

  Anne Frank

  Nature, Believe, Simple

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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• Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Garden, People, Tree

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• Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

  Dogen

  Wall, Practice, Tree

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• A good garden may have some weeds.

  Thomas Fuller

  Motivational, Weed, Garden

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• Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Garden, Guitar, Color

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Teacher, Garden

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• I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest.

  Voltaire

  Men, Garden, Eden

  "Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories".

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• Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

  Alfred Austin

  Horse, Food, Journey

  "Fictional character: Alex Blake". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 5: "The Good Earth", www.imdb.com. October 31, 2012.

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• If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Motivational, Death, Nature

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• I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

  Robert Bridges

  Summer, Garden, Clouds

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• What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Funny, Nature, Inspiration

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”

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• Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

  Unknown

  Horse, Food, Garden

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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

  Beauty, Nature, Eye

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4833, e-artnow

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• Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Garden, Woods, Neglected

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• I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Garden, Environment

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• I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Death, Kindness

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

  Bill Watterson

  Life, Fun, Garden

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• In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Parenting, Garden

  "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" (1974)

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• The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Garden, Giving, Wish

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life

  George Cadbury

  Opportunity, Men, Garden

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