Garden Quotes - Page 7

• Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

  Alfred Austin

  Horse, Food, Journey

  "Fictional character: Alex Blake". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 5: "The Good Earth", www.imdb.com. October 31, 2012.

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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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• From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

  Robert Breault

  Aunt, Thinking, Long Ago

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about how others ought to be living and rid yourself of thoughts about how they should be doing it this way, or how they have no right to live and think as they do. Stay busy and involved in your own projects and pursuits.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Letting Go, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jun 27, 2013

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  The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Art, Educational, Writing

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (1925). “In the Garden ...”

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• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, God, Spiritual

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.445, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe.

  Thomas Berry

  Religion, Spirit, Mystery

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• What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.

  William Lawson

  Tree, Religion, Delight

  Gervase Markham, William Lawson (1668). “A Way to Get Wealth: Containing Six Principall Vocations, Or Callings, in which Every Good Husband Or House-wife May Lawfully Imploy Themselves ...”

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• The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

  Larry Dossey

  Life, Spiritual, Enlightenment

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• If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

  Bill Watterson

  Life, Fun, The End Of The Day

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• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

  Charles Baudelaire

  War, Party, Book

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• A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Party, Book, Way

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• Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe that one who deeply respects his neighborhood and everyday world in which he lives will be shown the greatest of all worlds.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Believe, Everyday, World

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• I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Looks, Delight, Innocent

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.241

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• Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.

  Henry Mitchell

  Doe, Interfere

  Henry Mitchell (1999). “One Man's Garden”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Desire, Doe, Obsession

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