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He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments -… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably… — William Rothenstein
In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to do… — Violet Fane
The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper… — Charles Dudley Warner
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the… — Charles Dudley Warner
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. — Benjamin Disraeli
What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens.… — Ruth Pitter
Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours. — Mary Howitt
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss… — William Penn
To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment. — Eleanor Perenyi
That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap… — Paul Fleischman
Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden… — Gary Snyder
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson
There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with… — Henry Mitchell
A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year,… — Henry Beston
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. — Unknown Author
The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a… — Wendell Berry
How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the… — Unknown Author
A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature. — Jeff Cox
'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good garden… — Russell Page
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. — Amos Bronson Alcott
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it. — Charles Dudley Warner

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