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"In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it." ~ Frank McKinney Hubbard [1868-1930] American humorist and artist
"Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there." ~ Thomas Fuller, M.D. [1654-1734] British physician, author, scholar
"Tickle it with a hoe and it will laugh into a harvest." ~ English Proverb
"I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden." ~ John Erskine [1879-1951] American author, musician, educator
"Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart." ~ Russell Page, British garden designer, author
"Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw." ~ Henry David Thoreau [1817-1862] U.S. naturalist and author
"Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed." ~ Lewis Gannit
"One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides." ~ W.E. Johns
"When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved." ~ Frank Swinnerton
"Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself." ~ May Sarton
"The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow." ~ Author Unknown
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us." ~ Iris Murdoch
"Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration." ~ Lou Erickson
"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck." ~ Emma Goldman
"There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling." ~ Mirabel Osler
"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!" ~ Edward Abbey
"My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view." ~ H. Fred Ale
"Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it." ~ Author Unknown
"The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers." ~ Basho
"The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat." ~ Beverly Nichols
"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet." ~ Hal Borland
"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
"In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death." ~ Sam Llewelyn
"Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?" ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses." ~ Hanna Rion
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books." ~ Walt Whitman [1881-1892] American poet
"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans." ~ Marcelene Cox
"The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size." ~ Gertrude S. Wister
"God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done." ~ Author Unknown
"'Tis my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes!" ~ William Wordsworth, 1798
"Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees." ~ Anne Raver
"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." ~ Claude Monet
"If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn." ~ Andrew Mason
"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks." ~ Tennessee Williams
"It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
"With daffodils mad footnotes for the spring, "Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow." ~ Antonio Porchia
"There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords." ~ John Muir, 1916
"Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms." ~ Ikkyu Sojun
"I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, "Perfumes are the feelings of flowers." ~ Heinrich Heine
"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden." ~ Orson Scott Card
"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." ~ Jean Giraudoux
"Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, "You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt." ~ Author Unknown
"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed." ~ Walt Whitman [1881-1892] American poet
"No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden." ~ Hugh Johnson
"Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you." ~ Edward Payson Rod
"Pluck not the wayside flower; "I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day." ~ F. Frankfort Moore
"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity." ~ John Ruskin
"Despite the gardener's best intentions, nature will improvise." ~ Michael P. Garafalo
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