“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”
— Carolus Linnaeus
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A garden is a grand teacher. It
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”
— Gertrude Jekyll
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Help us to be ever faithful gardeners
“Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.”
— May Sarton
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Use plants to bring life.
“Use plants to bring life.”
— Douglas Wilson
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My favorite hobby is being alone. I
“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.”
— Emanuel Steward
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A garden must combine the poetic and
“A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.”
— Luis Barragan
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A man has made at least a
“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.”
— D. Elton Trueblood
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Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid
“Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.”
— Thomas Moore
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Flowers always make people better, happier, and
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
— Luther Burbank
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The space and light up there in
“The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.”
— Jeremy Northam
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature
“There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.”
— Alfred Austin
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