Garden Quotes - Page 2

• Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Land, Energy

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

  Kim Wilde

  Shoes, Boots, Sometimes

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• A flower is an educated weed.

  Luther Burbank

  Weed, Nature, Flower

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• In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Flower, Sadness, Joy

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.84, Tuttle Publishing

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• The poetry of the earth is never dead.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• Gardening is the best therapy in the world.

  C. Z. Guest

  Gardening, World, Therapy

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• Nature abhors a garden.

  Michael Pollan

  Gardening

  "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World". Book by Michael Pollan, www.nytimes.com. 2001.

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• Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Nature, Heart, Night

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Claude Mitchell Simpson (1972). “The American notebooks”, Ohio State Univ Pr

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• He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.

  Celia Thaxter

  Flower, Passion, Soul

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.4, Applewood Books

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• Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sad, Wall, Grief

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Evil, Prison

  Charles Lamb (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.284

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• Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Rainy Day, Weather

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• Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Goal, Creation, Proportion

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• I was determined to know beans.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'The Bean-Field'.

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• Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.

  Rachel Carson

  Inspirational, Time, Nature

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Optimism, Essentials, Judgment

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• I am the fonder of my garden for all the trouble it gives me, and the grudging reward that my unending labours exact.

  Reginald Farrer

  Giving, Trouble, Give Me

  "In a Yorkshire Garden".

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• With plants, persuasion is better than force.

  Elsa Bakalar

  Persuasion, Plant, Force

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• Flowers are my music.

  Thomas Walker Arnold

  Flower

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• Your garden will reveal yourself.

  Henry Mitchell

  Religion, Spirit, Gardening

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• Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Work, Hands, Religion

  History of England (1911) "The Glory of the Garden"

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• This garden has a soul, I know its moods.

  Leigh Hunt

  Soul, Mood, Knows

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• By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.

  Henry Mitchell

  War, Flower, Mad

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.25, Indiana University Press

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• To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Luxury, Earth

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• An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

  Richard Briers

  Perspective, Mind, Way

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