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“Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.”

Men Mean Use One Thing Essentials Garden Gardening Gardener

Book:Eccentric Spaces

Source: Eccentric Spaces

“As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.”

Men Running Nature Essentials Garden Weed Gardening Gardener Herbs

Author:Francis Bacon

“Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.”

Roles Path Focus Missing Essentials Structure Plant Visuals Gardener

Author:Janet Macunovich

“Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats chosen for their essential and individual quality, are other whole aspects of being a gardener. Why shouldn't we? We sit in other people's gardens, why not in our own.”

People Whole Individual Quality Essentials Aspect Garden Plant Individuality Chosen Seats Why Not Gardener Pondering Squandering

Author:Mirabel Osler

“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.”

Thinking Men Giving Heart Real Passion Essentials Garden Occupation Gardening Gardener Insatiable

Book:The Gardener's Year

Source: The Gardener's Year

“Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.”

Giving Essentials Garden Proportion Gardening Gardener Horticulture Great Garden

Book:Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal

Source: Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal

“The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.”

Looks Done Funny Essentials Garden Satisfied Optimistic Gardening Gardener Something Better Enterprising

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.”

Interest Imagination Half Exercise Essentials Garden Constant Gardening Gardener Horticulture

Author:Alice Morse Earle

“The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.”

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.”

Desire Essentials Garden Gardening Anticipation Delightful Gardener Delightful Things

Author:W. E. Johns

“The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.”

Men Hands Light Lying Born Tree Divine He Man Drug Essentials Garden Soil Rejoice Gardening Farming Corn Gardener Sprouts

Book:Farming: A Hand Book

Source: Farming: A Hand Book