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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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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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Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for…
— John Evelyn
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People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be…
— Surya Das
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We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where…
— Stewart Brand
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In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to…
— Khalil Gibran
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Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands,…
— David Suzuki
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Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.
— William Shakespeare
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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
— George Lois
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Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung…
— John Galsworthy
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Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so…
— William Shakespeare
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Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
— William Shakespeare
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