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  Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mother Teresa (1997). “No Greater Love”

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• Flowers are my music.

  Thomas Walker Arnold

  Flower

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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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• Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Education, Teacher

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337

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

  Zeno of Elea

  Success, Inspirational Life, Agreement

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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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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

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• Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Eye, Views

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

  Douglas Adams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Religious

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

  Alfred Austin

  Heart, Hands, Soul

  "Growing with the Seasons: A Sharing of Insights Into the Creative Aspects of Organic Gardening". Book by Frank Giannangelo and Vicky Giannangelo, July 1, 2008.

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• Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

  Alfred Austin

  Mistake, Society, Complexity

  Alfred Austin (1894). “The Garden that I Love”

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• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.

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• A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship

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• Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

  William Cowper

  Greenhouses, Gardening, Gardening And God

  William Cowper (1810). “The Task: A Poem. In Six Books”, p.89

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• To dwell is to garden.

  Martin Heidegger

  House, Gardening, Essentials

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• No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Culture, Earth, Occupation

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.6

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• Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Beauty, Valentines Day

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• The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

  George Edward Moore

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

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• My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

  Eric Morecambe

  Clever, Long, Use

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

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

  John Muir

  Wisdom, Nature, Autumn

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

  Franz Schubert

  House, Castles, Fine

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• I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Religion, Pulling Weeds, Spirit

  "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

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• Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.

  Robert Southey

  Cat, Animal, Pet

  "The Doctor, &c".

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• A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

  Gertrude Stein

  Food, Vegetables, Agriculture

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.46, Random House

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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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