- Plant
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- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the CDC should quit spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening, and massage therapy and direct that money to where it's appropriate in protecting the health of the American people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020