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“Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.”

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Francis Bacon, a renowned philosopher, politician, and writer, served as the Lord Chancellor of England. He is best known for his profound philosophical thoughts and extensive literary works, which have had a lasting impact on the world. more

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”

“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.”

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Author:Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

“For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.”

Artist Company Beauty Path Guides Eros

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“Friends are like money, easier made than kept.”

Made Friendship Easier

Book:Samuel Butler's notebooks

Source: Samuel Butler's notebooks

“Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.”

Seems Garden Fruit Chiefs Blackbirds

Book:The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.”

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Author:Thomas Moore

“On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.”

Life Particular Grew Shapes Garden Roots Experts Stem Leafs Gardener Specialists Caterpillars

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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