Garden Love Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Life, Men, Garden

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Nature, Flower, Garden

  Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

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• With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

  Lope de Vega

  Life, Flower, Book

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• Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refreshed by it.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Garden, Progress, Development

  Thalassa Cruso (1972). “MAKING THINGS GROW”

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• A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

  May Sarton

  Death, Failure, Loss

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.53, Open Road Media

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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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• It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.

  W. C. Sellar

  Love You, Garden, Essentials

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• The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

  Zeno of Elea

  Success, Inspirational Life, Garden

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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 think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Love, Inspirational, Nature

  "Trees" l. 1 (1913)

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• Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

  Walter Scott

  Art, Children, Garden

  "Periodical Criticism".

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• Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Garden, Tree, Serving Others

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.238, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The garden that is finished is dead.

  H. E. Bates

  Garden, Finished, Gardening

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• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, God, Spiritual

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.445, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

  Ruth Stout

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Garden, Young

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

  Carl Schmitt

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Carl Schmitt (2007). “Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political”, p.85, Telos Press Publishing

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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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• To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Garden, Earth Day

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are

  Chris Burden

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

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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

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Love, Garden, Eden

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.10

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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Food

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