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"A true gardener, like a true artist, is never satisfied." ~ H E Bates [1905-1974] British novelist and screenwriter "God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December." ~ Sir James Matthew Barrie [1860-1937] Scottish
novelist and playwright "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero [106-43 BC] Roman statesman, orator, writer "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember." ~ William Shakespeare [1564-1616] English poet and dramatist "Rough, standing stones, a stream meandering; delight without end, how lovely the setting for elegant play and serene pleasure." ~ Muso Soseki, 14th century Japanese poet, priest, garden designer "Ornamental grasses are the hair of mother earth." ~ Karl Foerster [1874-1970] "All through the long winter I dream of my garden. On the first warm day of spring I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar." ~ Helen Hayes [1900-1993] U.S. actress "And when thou art weary, I'll find thee a bed of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head." ~ John Keats [1795-1821] English poet "Gardening is a form of art which everyone, rightly or wrongly, considers to be within his talents." ~ Anonymous "Long as there's a sun that sets, primroses will have their glory; long as there are violets, they will have a place in story." ~ William Wordsworth [1770-1850] English poet "Show me your garden and I shall tell you who you are." ~ Alfred Austin [1835-1913] English poet; Poet Laureate 1896-1913 "What a thousand acres of silphiums looked like when they tickled the bellies of the buffalo is a question never again to be answered, and perhaps not even asked." ~ Aldo Leopold, 1949 "If a man finds himself with bread in both hands, he should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus; since the loaf feeds the body indeed, but the flower feeds the soul." ~ Muhammad [570-632] founder of Islam "To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do." ~ Charles Dudley Warner [1829-1900] U S Editor and author "I farm the soil that yields my food, I share creation. Kings can do no more." ~ Chinese proverb "To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour." ~ William Blake [1757-1827] English poet, engraver, painter "Daisies, ye flowers of lowly birth, embroiderers of the carpet earth that gem the velvet sod." ~ Clare of Assisi [1194-1253] Italian nun, founder of the Franciscan Order of Nuns, Saint "The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; a clover, any time, to him, is aristocracy." ~ Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson [1830-1886] U.S. poet "No occupation is so delightful to me as culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of gardening." ~ Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826] U.S. statesman, diplomat, architect, third president of the United States "Aside from the garden of Eden, man's great temptation took place when he first received his seed catalogue." ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [1807-1902] U.S. poet "More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed." ~ Joan Miro [b.1893] Spanish surrealist painter "I found them in a book last night, these withered violets;
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