How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
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John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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Alan Chadwick's garden is a 'garden of the mind' as much as it is of the soil, and like all genuinely inspired… — Page Smith Copy Share Image
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My grandmother was this amazing woman in the Dominican Republic who used to read tea leaves and palms. She would cure people… — Selenis Leyva Copy Share Image
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so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail… — John Irving Copy Share Image
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As for vegetables, I do not consider a plot of ground devoted to them worthy of the honorable name of garden. Vegetables… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
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For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear. If not the first, the fairest of the year; For thee the Graces… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
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I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
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I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
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Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom;… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
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When I am alone the flowers are really seen; I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
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