"There is no spot of ground, however arid,……" — Gertrude Jekyll
"There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight."
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15 Quotes by Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll has 15 quotes on this site.
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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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The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
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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 Arid Quotes
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one of 32 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it…
— Sofia Kovalevskaya
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If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This…
— Nikola Tesla
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Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find…
— Joan Didion
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A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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The will to win... the will to achieve...goes dry and arid without continuous renewal.
— Vince Lombardi
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I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and…
— Andy Spade
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and…
— John Climacus
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry…
— Pamela Stephenson
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Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and…
— Swami Vivekananda
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It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is…
— Cy Twombly
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