Quotes and Sayings About Garden
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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
-- Abraham CowleySource : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.152
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.
-- Abraham CowleySource : Abraham Cowley, A. R. Waller (2014). “Poems”, p.88, Cambridge University Press
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."
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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not criticized for routinely giving their (live)stock nutritional supplements....superior to any sold for humans...Millions of families could plant home gardens if they truly wanted health. Refined food are practically unknown in Russia. The life expectancy of the 40-year-old American is near the lowest in the world.
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It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.
-- Alan Chadwick -
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There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.
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Be kind to your garden and be gentle on your back!
-- Alan Titchmarsh -
Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!
-- Albert Hofmann -
Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.
-- Albert Howard -
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Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
-- Aldo LeopoldSource : Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
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A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
-- Alexander Pope -
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
-- Alexander SmithSource : Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition
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My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.
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I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.
-- Alexandra KerrySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
-- Alfred AustinSource : "Growing with the Seasons: A Sharing of Insights Into the Creative Aspects". Book by Frank Giannangelo and Vicky Giannangelo, p. 115, 2008.
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. Share the botanical bliss of gardeners through the ages, who have cultivated philosophies to apply to their own - and our own - lives: Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
-- Alfred AustinSource : Alfred Austin (1894). “The Garden that I Love”
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
-- Alfred AustinSource : Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”
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Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
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No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.
-- Alfred AustinSource : Alfred Austin (1906). “The Garden That I Love”