Gardening Quotes by Alfred Austin

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• In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. — Margaret Atwood
• Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
• 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
• God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon
• A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
• Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of… — Douglas Adams
• I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
• I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. — Joseph Addison
• Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. — Georges Bernanos
• We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry

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