Country Quote by Mary Mapes Dodge

[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge.

— Mary Mapes Dodge

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains…

— Alfred de Vigny

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

— Nikolai Gogol

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men…

— Rudyard Kipling

“There are a few people who have the wonderful garden loam that is described in books and magazines. One is more likely to have…

— Maggie Oster

Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul.

— Spencer W. Kimball

People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing…

— E. M. Delafield

When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.

— Ross Kemp

The very best garden is a new one, on virgin ground. Plants leap out of that spot.

— Janet Macunovich

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

— Michael Pollan

The British have such an odd relationship with food - and the land. I want the public and the Soil Association to see that…

— Monty Don

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

— Ellen Glasgow