Garden Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• To the landscape architect a rock garden... appears... the work of a lunatic.

  Louise Wilder

  Rocks, Landscape, Architect

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• Plan your garden on paper. Mistakes made on paper won't cost you much in time or money.

  Elsa Bakalar

  Mistake, Cost, Paper

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• The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it.

  Beatrix Farrand

  Essence, Looks, Should

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• For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries were now so plentiful that... I made 287 lbs of jam..."

  Bee Dawson

  Jam, Made, Strawberries

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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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• When possums were introduced in 1837 to start a fur industry, no one predicted that these Australian neighbours would naturalize with destructive enthusiasm, wreaking havoc on gardens and bush alike. Up to 20 million possums a year were killed during the height of the fur trade, but this barely checked their rapid expansion.

  Bee Dawson

  Years, Expansion, Fur

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• I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.

  Richard Briers

  Couple, Lovers, Silent

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• Spirituality is not easy to define, but you can tell when it is present. It is the fragrance of the garden of the Lord, the power to change the atmosphere around you, the influence that makes Christ real to others.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Real, Atmosphere, Spirituality

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.34, Moody Publishers

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• Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look deeply at our consciousness is our greatest gift and our greatest need, for there lie the seeds of suffering and of love, the very roots of our being, of who we are. Mindfulness...is the guide and the practice by which we learn how to use the seeds of suffering to nourish the seeds of love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Lying, Practice, Roots

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• So, I went to Germany and ended up parasailing around this castle. I was in Germany sightseeing, eating Bratwurst and hanging out in beer gardens. And then, I got back from Germany and got a call where they were like, "We need to fly you to New York tomorrow to read with Taylor [Schilling]." I was like, "Wait, for Alex, the manipulative drug-smuggling lesbian girl?!," and they were like, "Yeah."

  Laura Prepon

  Girl, New York, Beer

  Source: collider.com

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• Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Air, Should Have

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jun 23, 2016

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• If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Horror Stories, Land, Iron

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• Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

  Suzy Kassem

  Past, Water, Tears

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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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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• When wholeheartedly we help someone, when in a natural and spontaneous way we care for the tree and water the flowers in the garden even though no one required us, there is authentic generosity, genuine sympathy, true love.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Flower, Generosity, Water

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• People watched the Masters. It was a huge event. It was at The Garden. Now that it is over here in Europe, it has lost a little bit of popularity in the States.

  Pete Sampras

  Europe, People, Events

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• I do have a bit of a garden, and I'd love a hovercraft to get around it - one of the big four-seater ones with the fan on the back.

  Tom Felton

  Fans, Hovercrafts, Four

  "Tom Felton: I'm a little bit of a geek". Interview With Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.

  Hafez

  Flower, Writing, Heart

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• When I was still at school, I'd help Dad at the concrete yard he had prior to the garden centre. I was doing things there, like driving the tractors and forklifts, that most kids my age couldn't.

  Rick Astley

  Dad, School, Kids

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

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• Adam, who said to our Lord in the Garden of Eden, I got more ribs - you got more broads? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Eden, Ribs, Dinner

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• I would love this place to be my garden. 
  (on Arsenal's old stadium)

  Thierry Henry

  England, Stadiums, Arsenal

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• If you look at the Bible and you look at Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we all know who sinned first. Ladies, do you have to eat everything?

  Daniel Tosh

  Eden, Looks, Firsts

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• I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.

  Martha Stewart

  Summer, Party, Mushrooms

  "My List: Martha Stewart". Interview with Emily Cronin, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 11, 2013.

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• Sitting in an English
  Garden waiting for the sun
  If the sun don't come
  You get a tan from standing in the English rain.

  John Lennon

  Rain, Waiting, Sitting

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