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The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if… — Stephen Covey
Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to… — Thomas Jefferson
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural. — Thomas Jefferson
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. — Thomas Jefferson
I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed… — George Washington
God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart. — Meister Eckhart
I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. — Frank Frankfort Moore
When in the fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. — Celia Thaxter
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… — Karel Capek
A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise. — Russell Page
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out… — Ken Wilber
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. — May Sarton
The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better… — Vita Sackville-West
This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can. — Jane Hirshfield
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall. — Robert Frost
Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it… — Andrew Marvell
When your garden is finished I hope it will be more beautiful that you anticipated, require less care than you expected, and have cost only… — Thomas Church
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. — Charles Dudley Warner
Gardening is a humbling experience. — Martha Stewart
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of… — Gertrude Jekyll
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. — Alice Morse Earle
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your… — Rudyard Kipling
Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive,… — William Cowper
There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For… — J. D. Sedding
A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey… — H E Bates

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