"Half the interest of a garden is the……" — Alice Morse Earle
"Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal."
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Alice Morse Earle
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30 Quotes by Alice Morse Earle
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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
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The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the…
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The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a…
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We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not…
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There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the…
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It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and…
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