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title: "6 Garden Finished Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-von-arnim/i-have-been-much-afflicted-again-lately-by-visitors-and-they-gave-me/)

[Elizabeth von Arnim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-von-arnim/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/926/elizabeth-von-arnim-2484_arranging_i-have-been-much-afflicted-again-lately_967694.jpg)

> [“A garden is never finished. In that sense it is like the human world and all human undertakings.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karel-capek/a-garden-is-never-finished-in-that-sense-it-is-like-the-human-world/)

[Karel Čapek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karel-capek/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c3/karel-capek-8739_gardening_a-garden-is-never-finished-in-that-sense_1070404.jpg)

> [A garden is never finished.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shunryu-suzuki/a-garden-is-never-finished/)

[Shunryu Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shunryu-suzuki/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/068/shunryu-suzuki-1280_finished_a-garden-is-never-finished-1619746_1619746.png)

> [There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mirabel-osler/there-is-no-end-to-be-written-neither-can-you-like-an-architect/)

[Mirabel Osler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mirabel-osler/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/672/mirabel-osler-35732_architect_there-is-no-end-to-be-written-neither-ca_1694817.jpg)

> [When your garden is finished I hope it will be more beautiful that you anticipated, require less care than you expected, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-church/when-your-garden-is-finished-i-hope-it-will-be-more-beautiful-that/)

[Thomas Church](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-church/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0c/thomas-church-74560_anticipated_when-your-garden-is-finished-i-hope-it-w_1974429.png)

> [The garden that is finished is dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-e-bates-2/the-garden-that-is-finished-is-dead/)

[H. E. Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-e-bates-2/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c6/h-e-bates-2-52606_dead_the-garden-that-is-finished-is-dead-2912_2912222.jpg)

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