- Nov 07, 2020
Gardening Quotes
Lessons that grow slower than we'd like.
These lines treat the garden as a teacher of restraint - asking how much tending is actually enough, and noting that too much outside help can loosen a person's own claim on the work. Related ideas continue in our Garden collection.
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- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am so longing to be domestic,, cooking stew, gardening, hopefully having some children, painting, sitting still in one place.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020