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~ I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a
critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent
servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I
think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and
more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. ~
share this Gardening saying Reginald Farrer
~ A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade
they know they shall never sit in ~
share this Gardening saying Unknown
~ 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. ~
share this Gardening saying Mirabel Osler
~ The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him
there. ~
share this Gardening saying George Bernard Shaw
~ Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better
if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is
really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding,
and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them ~
share this Gardening saying Victoria Glendinning
~ In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex
and death. ~
share this Gardening saying Sam Llewelyn
~ The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five
senses. ~
share this Gardening saying Hanna Rion
~ In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden
of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The
thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as
beautiful ~
share this Gardening saying Abram L. Urban
~ It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all
its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of
suspended thought. ~
share this Gardening saying James Douglas
~ I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand
in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that
nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in
the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching
sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside
the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth
sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. ~
share this Gardening saying Nathaniel Hawthorne
~ It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and
the eyes will take care of themselves. ~
share this Gardening saying Robert Louis Stevenson
~ Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a
garden ~
share this Gardening saying Orson Scott Card
~ Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By
singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade. ~
share this Gardening saying Rudyard Kipling
~ No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one
garden. ~
share this Gardening saying Hugh Johnson
~ In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in
it. ~
share this Gardening saying Frank McKinney Hubbard
~ Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where
I can walk undisturbed. ~
share this Gardening saying Walt Whitman
~ It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening.
You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. ~
share this Gardening saying W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman,
~ Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and
meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like
everything else to which a man gives his heart ~
share this Gardening saying Karel
~ The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for
mirth, One is nearer God's heart in a garden Than anywhere else
on earth. ~
share this Gardening saying Dorothy Frances Gurney
~ Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. ~
share this Gardening saying Alfred Austin
~ How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence
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share this Gardening saying Benjamin Disraeli
~ Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint,
and the soil and sky as canvas. ~
share this Gardening saying Elizabeth Murray
~ 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. ~
share this Gardening saying Julie Moir Messervy:
~ Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the
charming gardeners who make our souls blossom ~
share this Gardening saying Marcel Proust
~ The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies ~
share this Gardening saying Gertrude Jekyll
~ In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends ~
share this Gardening saying Kozuko Okakura
~ Kiss of the sun for pardon. Song of the birds for mirth.
You're closer to God's heart in a garden than any place else on
earth ~
share this Gardening saying Dorothy Frances Gurney
~ Don't grumble that roses have thorns, be thankful that thorns
have roses ~
share this Gardening saying Unknown
~ Gardening is the purest of human pleasures ~
share this Gardening saying Francis Bacon
~ To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment. ~
share this Gardening saying Eleanor Perenyi
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