Speaking of the garden
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. -- Carl Reiner
January 4, 2010
January 3, 2010
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The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. -- Patrick Young.
January 2, 2010
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. -- George Santayana.
January 1, 2010
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The wind blows hard among the pines toward the beginning of an endless past. -- Shinikichi Takahashi.
December 31, 2009
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I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. -- Emma Goldman.
December 30, 2009
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The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
December 29, 2009
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There is no season such delight can bring
As summer, autumn, winter and the spring.
--William Browne
December 28, 2009
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Give me the splendid, silent sun, with all his beams full dazzling.-- Walt Whitman
December 27, 2009
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The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears -- John Muir
December 26, 2009
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The pleasant air and wind, with sacred thoughts do feed my serious mind. -- Rowland Watkyns.
December 25, 2009
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To garden in the rain, irresistible fragrances and fresh air. -- Michael P. Garofalo
December 24, 2009
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For in the nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. -- Martin Luther.
December 23, 2009
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Love is the fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand. -- Mother Teresa
December 22, 2009
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Let my words, like vegetables, be tender and sweet, for tomorrow I may have to eat them. --Author unknown
December 21, 2009
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The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfillment, and is not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography; it is here first of all for delight --John Ruskin.
December 20, 2009
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If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of a man become in its long journey toward the stars? -- G.K. Chestergon.
December 19, 2009
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To garden is to open your heart to the sky. The grandest view from the garden is the open sky. -- Author unknown.
December 18, 2009
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Everywhere water is a thing of beauty, gleaming in the dewdrop, singing in the summer rain. -- John Ballantine Gough
December 17, 2009
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To dig in one's own earth, with one's own spade, does life hold anything better? -- Beverly Nichols
December 16, 2009
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Soil...scoop up a handful of the magic stuff. Look at it closely. What wonders it holds as it lies there in your palm. --Stueard Maddox Masters.
December 15, 2009
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I find that a real gardener is not one who cultivates flowers, but one who cultivates the soil -- Karel Capek
December 14, 2009
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet. -- Kahil Gibran
December 13, 2009
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Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee. -- Anonymous.
December 12, 2009
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December 10, 2009
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The secrets are in the plants. To elicit them you have to love them enough. -- George Washington Carver
December 9, 2009
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“The greatest gift of a garden is the restoration of the five senses.” -- Hanna Rion, Let’s Make a Flower Garden, 1912
December 8, 2009
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A garden never knows when its over. Paula Deitz
December 7, 2009
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For though we may be the earth's gardeners, we are also its weeds. Jack R. Harland
December 6, 2009
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To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch their renewal of life...this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do. author unknown
December 5, 2009
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One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race. Wendell Berry
December 4, 2009
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I suppose when it comes right down to it, we garden because it's an old cold world, and sometimes the best a person can do is to give it children and some green things growing. Rebecca Rupp
December 3, 2009
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Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence. Henry Mitchell
December 1, 2009
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Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,
I keep it staying at Home -
With a bobolink for a Chorister,
And an Orchard, for a Dome.
Emily Dickinson
November 30, 2009
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How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. Benjamin Disraeli
November 29, 2009
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"I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error." --Sara Stein, “My Weeds: A Gardener's Botany”
November 28, 2009
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You need patience to be a good gardener. If you don’t have patience, and you stick with gardening, it will teach you patience.” --Bill Turull Jr. as quoted in “People, Places and Plants” magazine, N.E. / N.Y. Edition, Summer 2005
November 27, 2009
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"If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature." --Naturalist, John Burroughs
November 26, 2009
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"Occasional drama is what you want in an herbaceous border, to wake up the sleepy hordes of daisies and well-bred bellflowers." --Anna Pavord, “The New Kitchen Garden”
November 25, 2009
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"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life." --Mystery Writer P.D. James
November 24, 2009
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"'There's nowhere left to plant' is not an uncommon cry and, ironically, the larger the garden, the worse that problem can be." --Joy Larkcom, Creative Vegetable Gardening,
November 23, 2009
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Try as we may, there will be failures. Moving a plant to another part of the garden sometimes makes all the difference, but enough is enough: getting a garden together requires a measure of ruthlessness." --Pamela J. Harper, “Designing with Perennials”,
November 22, 2009
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"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain." --T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land"
November 21, 2009
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"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." --Abraham Lincoln
November 20, 2009
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“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
November 19, 2009
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November 18, 2009
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There is a great pleasure in working in the soil, apart from the ownership of it. The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. -- author unknown
November 17, 2009
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Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof. -- Celia Thaxter
November 16, 2009
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It used to be thought that our love of plants was an impractical but pure passion. But now, in the age of environmental crisis, we're discovering that gardening is essential to human life. -- Jacqueline Heriteau
November 15, 2009
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Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity. -- Thomas Jefferson
November 14, 2009
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If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinthus, for they would feed my soul. -- The Koran
November 13, 2009
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Just living is not enough . . . One must have sunshine,freedom, and a little flower. -- Hans Christian Anderson
November 12, 2009
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A garden is a place arranged for promenades and at the same time for the recreation of the eyes. But it is also an accessory to the house, serving it as an accompaniment, an environment; and, within certain limits, it is simply another apartment, an annex of the house. Therefore, how can the art which built and adorn the dwelling be refused the right to interfere in this exterior house? -- Vitet
November 11, 2009
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I too have a new plaything, the best I ever had, a woodlot. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 10, 2009
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eyes level with her smallest leaf, and take an insects view of its plain. -- Thoreau
November 9, 2009
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In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. -- Louise Beebe Wilder
November 8, 2009
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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 7, 2009
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I've never been without a garden, It's a lifetime challenge: a thing of beauty and a 3-D puzzle. -- Beatrice J. Elye
November 6, 2009
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Will is the root, knowledge is the stem and leaves, and feeling is the flower. -- Sterling
November 5, 2009
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Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders. There is nothing so wonderful in any landscape as the necessity of being beautiful under which every landscape lies. -- Emerson
November 4, 2009
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The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay. -- H.W. Beecher
November 3, 2009
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Much may be done with those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. -- Charles Colton
November 2, 2009
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Each of us is a trustee of the past, so on the traditions of the past may we build today for a better and more beautiful tomorrow. -- author unknown
November 1, 2009
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 31, 2009
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A garden is not made in a year; indeed it is never made in the sense of finality. It grows, and with the labour of love should go on growing. -- Frederick Eden
October 30, 2009
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. -- Rabindranath Tagore
October 29, 2009
October 28, 2009
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Bread feeds the body indeed, but the flowers also feed the soul. -- The Koran
October 27, 2009
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I believe that the days to come already feel the wonder of the days that have passed and will permit that wonder to endure and increase. If this be blind faith, then every gardener has it, or he would never plant a seed. -- author unknown
October 26, 2009
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And tis my faith, that every flower enjoys the air it breathes. -- William Wordsworth
October 25, 2009
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Gardening gives me fun and health and knowledge. It gives me laughter and colour. It gives me pictures of almost incrdeible beauty. -- John F. Kenyon
October 24, 2009
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If well managed, nothing is more beautiful than a kitchen-garden. -- William Cobbett
October 23, 2009
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From the intimate union of art and nature, of architecture and landscape, will be born the best gardening compositions which Time, purifying public taste, now promises to bring us. -- Edouard André
October 22, 2009
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has Genius, Power, and Magic in it. -- Goethe
October 21, 2009
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If you would be happy your whole life long, Become a gardener. -- Old Chinese Proverb
October 20, 2009
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Unlike your favorite painting or sentimental vase, a landscape is alive and constantly changing. -- author unknown
October 19, 2009
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Flowers in a city are like lipstick on a woman- it just makes you look better to have a little color. -- Lady Bird Johnson
October 18, 2009
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A flower is an educated weed. -- Luther Burbank
October 17, 2009
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The only two herbicides we recommend are cultivation and mulching. -- Organic Gardening Magazine
October 16, 2009
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With landscaping, you never seem to reach a point when you feel the job is complete. -- author unknown
October 15, 2009
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Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. -- Wordsworth
October 14, 2009
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What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of the heaven. -- A.J. Balfour
October 13, 2009
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. -- Alexander Smith
October 12, 2009
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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden . . . You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden. -- Rudyard Kipling
October 11, 2009
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More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. -- Old Spanish Proverb
October 10, 2009
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To create a little flower is the labor of ages. -- William Blake
October 9, 2009
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We are stardust, we are golden, and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden. -- Joni Mitchell
October 8, 2009
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Collectors thrill to tiny silver leaves or bronze ones, but little can excite the acquisition frenzy that leaves do with many colors at once. -- Ken Druse
October 7, 2009
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Beauty never slumbers; all is in her name; but the rose remembers the dust from which it came. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
October 6, 2009
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Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers. -- Lady Bird Johnson
October 5, 2009
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. -- Edward Abbey
October 4, 2009
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The secret of landscapes isn't creation...It's maintenance. -- Michael Dolan
October 3, 2009
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Plants, like people, are social or anti-social: the good plant has to be able to live amicably with other plants in the border. -- Richardson Wright
October 2, 2009
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"There is more pleasure in making a garden than in contemplating a paradise."
-- Anne Scott-James, Down to Earth, 1971
October 1, 2009
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Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts. -- Mac Griswold
September 30, 2009
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All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden. -- Reginald Farrer
September 29, 2009
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God Almighty first planted a garden and indeed it is the purest of all human pleasures. -- Francis Bacon.
September 22, 2009
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I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. -- Martha Smith
September 21, 2009
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I want to be a lawn -- Greta Garbo (courtesy of W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman)
September 20, 2009
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Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a surburban golf course. -- Nancy Mitford
September 19, 2009
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Everyone had a Japanese maple, althought after Pearl Harbor, most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated. -- Barry Humpries
September 18, 2009
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I want death to find me planting my cabbages -- Montaigne
September 17, 2009
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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches -- Robert Frost
September 16, 2009
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...make no mistake, the weeds will win, nature bats last. -- Robert Michael Pyle
September 15, 2009
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There is nothing more agreeable in a garden than good shade, and without it, a garden is nothing. -- Betty Langley
September 14, 2009
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I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
September 13, 2009
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
September 12, 2009
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Yes, in the poor man's garden grows
Far more than herbs and flowers-
Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind,
And joy for weary hours. -- author unknown
September 11, 2009
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Queer things happen in the garden in May. Little faces forgotten appear, and plants thought to be dead suddenly wave a green hand to confound you. -- W E Johns
September 10, 2009
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. -- Thomas Lanier (Tennessee) Williams
September 9, 2009
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One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. -- W. E. Johns
September 8, 2009
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A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. -- William Carlos Williams
September 7, 2009
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I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
September 6, 2009
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As one grows older one should grow more expert at finding beauty in unexpected places, in deserts and even in towns, in ordinary human faces and among wild weeds. -- C.C.Vyvyan
September 5, 2009
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I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens. Prince De Ligne
September 4, 2009
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Flowers seem intended for a solace of ordinary humanity -- John Ruskin
September 3, 2009
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If I'm ever reborn, I want to be a gardener—there's too much to do for one lifetime! -- Karl Foerster
September 2, 2009
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It has been said that vines are to bits of architecture what a dress is to a woman. It may serve to enhance beauty or to cover defects. -- Loring Underwood
September 1, 2009
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I haven't much time to be fond of anything . . . But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times . . . the roses get it. -- (William) Wilkie Collins
August 31, 2009
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What a pity flowers can utter no sound!—A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle,—oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be! -- Henry Ward Beecher
August 30, 2009
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When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves. -- Ken Druse
August 29, 2009
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Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained. -- Jerzy Kozinski
August 28, 2009
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You are the kind of friend who would overlook my broken fence to admire my flowers. -- author unknown