Quotes on gardening
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.
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Hanna Rion Quotes
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
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Mrs. C.W. Earle Quotes
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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May Sarton Quotes
Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.
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Karel Čapek Quotes
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
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Douglas William Jerrold Quotes
Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.
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Lou Erickson Quotes
We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.
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Evelyn Underhill Quotes
Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise.
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Michael P. Garafalo Quotes
I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.
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Sara Stein Quotes
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.
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Thomas Fuller Quotes
By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.
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Henry Mitchell Quotes
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
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Orson Scott Card Quotes
Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.
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Author Unknown Quotes
It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.
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W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman Quotes
I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.
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John Erskine Quotes
Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
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Robert Bridges Quotes
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden. It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.
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C.E. Cowman Quotes
Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.
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Russell Page Quotes
When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too.
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Linda Solegato Quotes
You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.
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Author Unknown Quotes
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.
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Abram L. Urban Quotes
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
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W.E. Johns Quotes
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.
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H. Fred Ale Quotes
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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Walt Whitman Quotes
On every stem, on every leaf, and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
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Marcelene Cox Quotes