Garden Quotes - Page 9

• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

  Alexander Pope

  Genius, Paint, Plant

  Alexander Pope, “Epistles To Several Persons: Epistle Iv, To Richard Boyle,”

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• I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

  Martha Stewart

  Thinking, Effort, May

  Martha Stewart (1991). “Martha Stewart's gardening, month by month”, Clarkson Potter

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• We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

  Joni Mitchell

  Peace, Hippie, Golden

  "Woodstock" (song) (1969)

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• Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Flower

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• The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Agriculture, Goal, Perfection

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.14, New York Review of Books

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• A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

  Michael Pollan

  Space, Twists, Landscape

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.244, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

  Eudora Welty

  Grief, Flower, Writing

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• And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

  Rudyard Kipling, David Arscott (2007). “A Sussex Kipling”, p.85, Pomegranate Press

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• Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

  Alice Walker

  Life, Dance, Flower

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.30, Ballantine Books

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• Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Wall, Men

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• A weed is but an unloved flower.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Weed, Flower, Acceptance

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1917). “The Collected Poems”

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• Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours.

  Mary Howitt

  Peace, Flower, Men

  Mary Howitt (1855). “Birds and flowers and other country things [in verse].”, p.11

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• The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.

  Ruth Stout

  Weed, Clothes, May

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

  Ezra Pound

  Kings, Men, Elysium

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• God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Firsts, Pleasure

  Essays "Of Gardens" (1625)

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• The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds them, more than to the gardens of men. There is something indescribably inspiriting and beautiful in the aspect of the forest skirting and occasionally jutting into the midst of new towns, which, like the sand-heaps of fresh fox-burrows, have sprung up in their midst. The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Nature, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.120, Xist Publishing

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• Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  People, Tree, Looks

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• The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Inspirational Life, Playing Games

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Young, Old Man

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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• Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Caring, Kind Thoughts

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• Bloom where you are planted!

  Mary Engelbreit

  Flower, Volunteer, Where You Are

  Patrick Regan, Mary Engelbreit (2002). “Mary Engelbreit: The Art and the Artist”, p.31, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Gardening is not a rational act.

  Margaret Atwood

  Gardening, Rational

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

  Orson Scott Card

  Funny, Work, Sarcasm

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Homebody: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• All gardening is landscape painting.

  William Kent

  Beauty, Design, Landscape Painting

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