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GARDENING QUOTES - 17



A small garden, figs, a little cheese, and along with this, three or four good friends-such was luxury to Epicurus.   Friedrich Nietzsche


Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.   Sir Walter Scott


Plants are the missionaries of Nature constantly at work.   Dr L.C.Corbett


I think the Sweet Pea is a frivolous flower and leads a butterfly's life, it wanders anywhere, and clings to anything, and has not any definite aim or ideal.   Helen Milman


All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting place.   Austin Dobson


So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.   author unknown


No garden is without its weeds.   Thomas Fuller


As it is in the wild so it is among the habitations of men; the foundations of any garden worthy of the name-that is any garden that is to endure-is the perennial, but without the transitory charm of the annual there is something lacking.   Benjamin Goodrich


How cunningly Nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!   Ralph Waldo Emerson


By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.   John Henry Cardinal Newman


Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.   Alfred Austin


Not wholly in the busy world, not quite beyond it, blooms the garden that I love.   Tennyson




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