Garden Quotes - Page 6

• A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Teacher, Jekyll

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• I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

  Robert Breault

  Gardening, Gardener

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• The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Blessing, Eden

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.115, VM eBooks

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• For optimal health, we need body and spirit, exercise (ming) and meditation, awareness of the inner world and the outer. In other words, health requires balance and moderation. The goal of qigong may be summarized as xing ming shuang xiu,spirit and body equally refined and cultivated. Cultivate your whole being, as you would cultivate a garden with attention, care, and even love.

  Ken Cohen

  Exercise, Qigong, Goal

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• The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

  George Balanchine

  Beautiful, Dance, Flower

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• If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

  Luther Burbank

  Weed, Children, Parenting

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• Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

  Joseph Conrad

  Flower, Expression, Criticism

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.1153, e-artnow

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• When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

  Carlos Santana

  Spiritual, Baby, Flower

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• A garden must be looked unto and dressed as the body.

  George Herbert

  Body

  "The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel".

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• If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity

  Robert Fulghum

  Weed, Opportunity, Hands

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• Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Art, Nature, Design

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• Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?

  Felder Rushing

  Add, Pressure, Boundaries

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  Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a few hints, but we might as well abandon our spades and pitchforks as pretend that nature is everything and art nothing.

  Shirley Hibberd

  Art, Nature, Design

  James Shirley Hibberd (1871). “The amateur's flower garden”, p.223

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• There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Respect, Hands, Touching

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• In a field I am the absence of field.That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the space where my body has been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.

  Mark Strand

  Moving, Air, Space

  "Keeping Things Whole" l. 14 (1969)

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• If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

  Eamon de Valera

  Country, Kitchen, Prosperity

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• The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.

  Margaret Carlson

  Victory, Generations, Sugar

  Margaret Carlson (2003). “Anyone Can Grow Up: How George Bush and I Made it to the White House”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

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• It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Sowing, Soil, Road To Success

  Orison Swett Marden (1916). “Everybody Ahead: Or, Getting the Most Out of Life”

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• Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Nature, Hate, Roots

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• Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.

  Juan Carlos I of Spain

  Europe, Cultivation

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• Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Tree, Needs

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There".

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• Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

  Christian Wiman

  Religion, Backyards, Tripping

  Christian Wiman (2013). “Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet”, p.147, Copper Canyon Press

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• Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.

  Iggy Pop

  Yards, Use, Toilets

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