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Garden Quotes by John Muir
- When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.
- One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.
- The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light.
- Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy…
- Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body…
- No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No…
- So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert.…
- In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
- There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
- Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods…
- As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the…
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