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Garden Quotes by Beverley Nichols
- To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?
- Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure…
- A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.
- A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and…
- I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to…
- Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many…
- A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.
- A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather…
More Garden Quotes
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. — Margaret Atwood
- Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
- That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. — Marcus Aurelius
- The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin
- Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. — Alfred Austin
- There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some… — Alfred Austin
- Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. — Alfred Austin
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon