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A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of…
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'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart.…
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Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.
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My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and…
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I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily.
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Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.
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To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.
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A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
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You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.
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A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far…
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There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can…
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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry…
— Margaret Fuller
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The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can…
— Russell Page
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I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and…
— Mary Oliver
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Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.
— Bill Bryson
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A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part,…
— Elizabeth Moon
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I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and…
— Mary Oliver
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