Famous Quotes - Tags - Gardens And Gardening

  • A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden... More
  • A garden is like those pernicious machineries we read of, every month, in the newspapers, which... More
  • A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it... More
  • Adam was a gardener. More
  • Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat... More
  • Annihilating all that’s made
    To a green thought in a green shade. More
  • As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled... More
  • Every one finds by his own experience, as well as in history, that the era in which men cultivate... More
  • Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. More
  • Gardening, as compared to lawn care, tutors us in nature’s ways, fostering an ethic of give and... More
  • God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. More
  • Hast thou found any likeness for thy vision?
    O gardener of strange flowers, what bud, what... More
  • Her crop was a miscellany
    When all was said and done,
    A little bit of everything,
    A... More
  • Here did she fall a tear. Here in this place
    I’ll set a bank of rue, sour... More
  • How lush and lusty the grass looks! How green! More
  • How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a... More
  • I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that... More
  • I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the... More
  • I just come and talk to the plants, really—very important to talk to them, they respond I find. More
  • I know a little garden-close
    Set thick with lily and red rose,
    Where I would wander if I... More
  • I suspect by the account you give me of your garden, that you mean a surprise. As good singers... More
  • I walk down the garden-paths,
    And all the daffodils
    Are blowing, and the bright blue... More
  • I will go root away
    The noisome weeds which without profit suck
    The soil’s fertility... More
  • In preparing the soil for planting, you will need several tools. Dynamite would be a beautiful... More
  • In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature,... More
  • It had not a New England but an Oriental character, reminding us of trim Persian gardens, of... More
  • I’ve roses to guard
    In the architectural prettiness of my yard.
    (But there are no paths... More
  • Look at it. It was once a wilderness, now it’s a garden. Aren’t you proud? More
  • Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are... More
  • Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds. More
  • Now ‘tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;
    Suffer them now, and they’ll outgrow... More
  • O for some sharp swish of a branch
    there is no scent of resin
    in this place. More
  • O to blot out this garden
    to forget, to find a new beauty
    in some... More
  • Oh, the army. Well I planted twenty-four gardens the first ten years of our marriage. Never... More
  • Old people working. Making a gift of garden.
    Or washing a car, so some one else may ride. More
  • Our sea-walled garden, the whole land,
    Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked... More
  • Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each... More
  • Small herbs have grace; great weeds do grow apace. More
  • Soon the purple dark must bruise
    Lily and bleeding-heart and rose,
    And the little Cupid... More
  • Superfluous branches
    We lop away, that bearing boughs may live. More
  • Take of this grain, which in my garden grows, More
  • The architect ... has something in common with the landscape gardener. Everyone can grasp the... More
  • The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with... More
  • The city mouse lives in a house;—
    The garden mouse lives in a bower, More
  • The final flat of the hoe’s approval stamp
    Is reserved for the bed of a few selected seed. More
  • The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity.... More
  • The kiss of the sun for pardon,
    The song of the birds for mirth,
    One is nearer God’s... More
  • The light would show (if it could harden)
    Eternities of kitchen garden, More
  • The strawberry grows underneath the nettle,
    And wholesome berries thrive and ripen... More
  • The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for... More
  • Thou, old Adam’s likeness, set to dress this garden. More
  • Virtue? a fig! ‘tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the... More
  • We marry
    A gentler scion to the wildest stock,
    And make conceive a bark of baser... More
  • We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today.
    That we may look at them, in their gardens... More
  • What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. More
  • What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a... More
  • When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health,... More
  • When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an... More

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