Garden Quotes - Page 29

• Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself

  Edith Södergran

  Cat, Wish, World

  Edith Södergran (1984). “Complete Poems”, Dufour Editions

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• Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?

  Lactantius

  Rain, Believe, Fall

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• Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

  Thomas Sowell

  Eden, Late, Trade

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect as garden-hopes.

  Patience Strong

  Memories, Frustration, Perfect

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• There is a great power within that when used in beauty and immaculate purity can cure and heal and cause miracles. When you use it it spreads like a magic garden and when you do not use it it recedes from you.

  Lord Buckley

  Miracle, Magic, Use

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• The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection. Having got the plants, the great thing is to use them with careful selection and definite intention.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Numbers, Doe, Use

  Gertrude Jekyll (1964). “On Gardening”

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• When anyone hurts us, my wife and I sit in our Japanese sand garden and drink iced tea. There are five stone in the garden - for sky, wind, fire, water, and earth. We sit and think of five of the nicest things we can about the person who hurt us. If he hurts us a second time, we do the same thing. The third time, we light a candle, and he is, for us, dead.

  Red Skelton

  Hurt, Thinking, Wind

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• I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices wont unduly disturb anyone.

  Robin McKinley

  Voice, Car, Credit

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• Some people like to garden, some people like motorcycle riding... my hobby is winning.

  Jack Passion

  Winning, People, Motorcycle

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• My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there... was in contradiction with what I saw in the streets. It was a different world.

  Rula Jebreal

  Religious, Childhood, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One does not imagine the presence of a dog in the Garden of Eden, for had there been, no doubt he would have given adequate protection to his mistress and saved her descendants from all subsequent trouble.

  Kate Sanborn

  Dog, Eden, Doubt

  Kate Sanborn (1916). “Educated dogs of to-day”

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• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Teacher, Party, Book

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• It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eden, Apples, Tree

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• Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home.
  While you look for trinkets
  The treasure house awaits you in your own being.

  Rumi

  Flower, Home, House

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• As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It is like planting a garden. You do not cause the seeds to grow. To grow is their natural purpose in life.

  James Hunter

  Leader, Growth, Purpose

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• The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced in the pages of these volumes-including that of our contemporary biological view, which becomes an effective mythic image the moment we recognize its own inner mystery. By the same magic, every god that is dead can be conjured again to life, as any fragment of rock from a hillside, set respectfully in a garden, will arrest the eye.

  Joseph Campbell

  Eye, Simple, Views

  Joseph Campbell (1983). “Historical Atlas of World Mythology: The way of the animal powers”, Vanderbilt Univ Department of

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• The gardens I love best are those that are still affectionately tended by the people who own them and who made them - who planned and planted and replanned and replanted them, who dug in the dirt and moved hoses and watched the gardens change with the cycle of the seasons and over the passage of years.

  Allen Lacy

  Love Is, Years, People

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• Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Joy, Tools, Kind

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1934). “Gardener's handbook, successor to The gardener: brief indications for the growing of common flowers, vegetables and fruits in the garden and about the home”

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• If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.

  Janet Macunovich

  Hands, Watches, Way

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• A garden is not a picture, but a language.

  Henry Mitchell

  Language

  Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.72, Indiana University Press

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• I've known Jennifer [Salke] for so long. Before I was a writer, I did garden design, and I designed Jennifer's garden, many years ago. I've known her for a really long time. So the pitch was not really about that.

  Ryan T. Murphy

  Years, Long, Design

  Source: collider.com

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• I cannot walk into our garden without constantly being reminded of the friends who have shared their plants.

  Allen Lacy

  Plant, Walks

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• Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen (one word, thought or action), they delay our progress towards building a beautiful global garden for our children. Every person, molecule, and THING matters. All of our separate actions are a reflection of the actions of the whole.

  Suzy Kassem

  Beautiful, Children, Ignorance

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• Not all introductions worked well. Rabbits were an unmitigated environmental disaster. Unchecked by any natural predator, they bred at a staggering rate and chewed their way across vast areas of pastureland as well as any garden that came their way. Attempts to control them by introducing ferrets, weasels and stoats did much more harm than good. Although these predators probably killed a reasonable number of rabbits, they also devastated populations of kiwi and raided the nests of flighted birds.

  Bee Dawson

  Numbers, Bird, Environmental

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• A garden is mainly ...a space around which interests can be accumulated.

  Graham Stuart Thomas

  Space, Interest

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