Gardening Quotes - Page 7

• Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

  Russell Page

  Heart, Garden, Green

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• I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Fashion, People, Love Fashion

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• I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

  Gates McFadden

  Architecture, Hairstyles, Obsessive

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• I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.

  Allen Lacy

  Garden, People, Joy

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• Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.

  Jerry Baker

  Success, Garden, Done

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• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  John Roberts

  Art, Drama, Flower

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• In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.

  Sam Llewellyn

  Death, Sex, Garden

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• Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Love, Garden, Eden

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.10

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• Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Garden, Goal, Creation

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Home, Church

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.324 (first published 1864).

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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

  Garden, Space, Twists

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

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• I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Sports, Garden, Cooking

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• There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Beauty, Garden, Giving

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.277, Cambridge University Press

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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, Garden

  "Woodstock" (song) (1969)

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• A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Ambition, Garden, Plants Growing

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• I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

  Luis Barragan

  Landscape, Architecture, Divides

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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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• If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Garden, Would Be, Plant

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• Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Funny, Humor, Garden

  Of Australia. The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold (published 1859),'A Land of Plenty'.

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• I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.

  Peter Smithers

  Weed, Garden, Plant

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• Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Essentials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “Essays: First Series”, p.321

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• What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

  Roy Rogers

  Butterfly, Garden, Social Butterfly

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• My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

  Juliet Mills

  Soccer, Husband, Team

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• The garden that is finished is dead.

  H. E. Bates

  Garden, Finished, Garden Love

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• If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Motivational, Death, Nature

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