Garden Quotes - Page 14

• A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Weed, Nature

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• There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises. It sounds very well to garden a 'natural way'. You may see the natural way in any desert, any swamp, any leech-filled laurel hell. Defiance, on the other hand, is what makes gardeners.

  Henry Mitchell

  Nature, Pride, Hands

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.3, Indiana University Press

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• Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

  Francis Cabot Lowell

  Flower, Circles, Wheels

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• How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

  Mary Astell

  World, Fine, Be Good

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• I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

  Mary Wesley

  People, Young

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• I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?

  Peter Tosh

  Inspiration

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

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• Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'

  Susannah York

  House, Looks, Want

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• Yoga adds years to your life and life to your years.

  Alan Finger

  Yoga, Years, Add

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• I don't think we'll ever know all there is to know about gardening, and I'm just as glad there will always be some magic about it!

  Barbara Damrosch

  Thinking, Justice, Magic

  Barbara Damrosch (2003). “The Garden Primer”, p.2, Rodale

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• I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.

  Allen Lacy

  People, Joy, Littles

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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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• Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

  Toots Thielemans

  Rose, Musician, Jazz

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• I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.

  David Hobson

  Winter, Order, Cleaning

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• The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Hands, Clothes, Hoe

  Texas Bix Bender (1999). “Don't Throw in the Trowel”, Gramercy Books

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• It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.

  Robert Breault

  Photography, Please Me, Looks

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• As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

  Robert Breault

  Believe, Evidence Of God, Existence

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• I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.

  David Hobson

  Enjoy, Providing, Felt

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• Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Character, Thinking, Land

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.296, Princeton University Press

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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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• The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Rain, Struggle

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1906). “Longfellow Day by Day”

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  In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

  John Muir

  Nature, Adventure, Yellowstone

  John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.67, e-artnow

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• To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Beauty, Music, Flower

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• Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Jobs, Gardening

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4723, e-artnow

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• The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.

  Wendell Berry

  Journey, Land, Hiking

  "The Unsettling of America". Book by Wendell Berry, 1977.

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