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2106 Garden quotes by 1278 unique authors
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The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in…
— Lawrence Halprin
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I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green…
— Alfred Leslie Rowse
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Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something beautiful about ourselves.
— Jeff Cox
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In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
— Thomas Edward Brown
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We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs…
— Paul Fleischman
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But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.
— Thomas Jefferson
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My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural…
— Epicurus
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Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.
— Ezra Pound
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It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.
— Unknown Author
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
— Alexander Pope
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Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a…
— Dave Barry
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Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
— Douglas William Jerrold
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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
— Beverley Nichols
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A garden is never so good as it will be next year.
— Thomas Cooper
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Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.
— Robert Breault
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.
— Martha Stewart
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Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.
— H E Bates
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If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.
— Robert Breault
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Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
— Walter Scott
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All my hurts my garden spade can heal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.
— Mary Cantwell
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