"The love of gardening is a seed once…" — Gertrude Jekyll
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."
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Gertrude Jekyll
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15 Quotes by Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll has 15 quotes on this site.
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There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as…
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I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her…
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To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing…
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In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of…
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It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice…
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The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love,…
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It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging,…
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If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel…
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I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may…
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A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.
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A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it…
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There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand…
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More Dies Quotes
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries…
— Jane Austen
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
— Dan Aykroyd
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
— Abu Bakr
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Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
— Dave Barry
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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
— Milton Berle
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All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are…
— Annie Besant
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
— Theodor Adorno
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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up…
— Jim Bishop
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Love dies only when growth stops.
— Pearl S. Buck
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