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John Evelyn has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
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Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience,…
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The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground,…
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Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for…
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This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.
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A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.
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Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.
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The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and…
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Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
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Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained…
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I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.
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I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of…
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which…
— D. Elton Trueblood
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The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground,…
— John Evelyn
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Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
— George Perkins Marsh
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A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.
— Alexander Smith
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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep…
— Jean Genet
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And as long as America must choose, that long will there be a need and a place for the Democratic Party. We…
— Robert Kennedy
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A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
— Margaret Thatcher
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He plants to benefit another generation.
— Caecilius Statius
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.…
— William Cowper
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God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and…
— George Perkins Marsh
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When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.
— John Muir
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