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Quote Genre: Garden
Proverb – ‘Gardeners Know All The Dirt….
‘Gardeners Know All The Dirt.’
Colin Wilson – ‘I have a strong antipathy to…
‘I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens gardening and gardeners…. Gardening seems to me a kind of admission of defeat…. Man was made for better things than pruning his rose trees. The state of mind of the … Continue reading
Quote Author: Colin Wilson
Quote Genre: Garden
Carol Williams – ‘Usually children spend more …
‘Usually children spend more time in the garden than anybody else. It is where they learn about the world because they can be in it unsupervised yet protected. Some gardeners will remember from their own earliest recollections that no one … Continue reading
Quote Author: Carol Williams
Quote Genre: Garden
Ken Wilbur – ‘Bad Gardens copy good garden…
‘Bad Gardens copy good gardens create great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden so completely that the separate self-sense disappears … Continue reading
Quote Author: Ken Wilbur
Quote Genre: Garden
Katharine S. White – ‘As I write snow is falling o…
‘As I write snow is falling outside my Maine window and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.’
Quote Author: Katharine S. White
Quote Genre: Garden
Edith Wharton – ‘It is the omnipresent rush o…
‘It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. >From the Anio drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour a thousand rills gush downward terrace by terrace channeling the stone rails of … Continue reading
Quote Author: Edith Wharton
Quote Genre: Garden
Emily Whaley – ‘Though there are other ways …
‘Though there are other ways to finance your gardening one sucessful way is to choose carefully whom you marry. A good and generous man is needed one who knows how to make money and enjoys sharing it one who himself … Continue reading
Quote Author: Emily Whaley
Quote Genre: Garden
Theresa Watkins – ‘Finding what brings peace an…
‘Finding what brings peace and joy to your heart is important after a hard day at work or just living in our intense world. Walking through your garden at the end of the day can rejuvenate you. I wonder if … Continue reading
Quote Author: Theresa Watkins
Quote Genre: Garden
Charles Dudley Warner – ‘The love of dirt is among th…
‘The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to … Continue reading
Quote Author: Charles Dudley Warner
Quote Genre: Garden
Rosemary Verey – ‘Colours change: in the morni…
‘Colours change: in the morning light red shines out bright and clear and the blues merge into their surroundings melting into the greens; but by the evening the reds loose their piquancy embracing a quieter tone and shifting toward the … Continue reading
Quote Author: Rosemary Verey
Quote Genre: Garden