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“Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds.”

Thinking Mind Evil Accepting Our Lives Bears Garden Plant Fruit Seeds Destructive Constructive Fertile Fertile Ground

Book:Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour

Source: Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour

“So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees.”

Men Fall Sea Land Bears Bird Angel Garden Plant Extraordinary Spending Treasure Desert Sunshine Sheep Bees Lilies Pouring Squirrels Land And Sea

Author:John Muir

“So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.”

Littles Games Cutting Streets Bears Married Humorous Garden Died Rounds Pops Ran Apples Shops Boots Heels Pie Buttons Leafs Soap Cabbage Gunpowder Barbers Apple Pie

Author:Samuel Foote

“Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.”

World Would Be Bears Garden Amenities

Book:Works: Pascarel

Source: Works: Pascarel

“In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears.”

Care Language Land Flower Bears Garden Eastern Mystic Garlands Love And Care

Book:The poetical works of James Gates Percival

Source: The poetical works of James Gates Percival

“In the embers shining bright A garden grows for thy delight, With roses yellow, red, and white. But, O my child, beware, beware! Touch not the roses growing there, For every rose a thorn doth bear.”

Children Grows White Growing Bears Red Garden Shining Rose Delight My Children Yellow Prudence Embers Red And White

Book:Lyrics

Source: Lyrics

“In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity--had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.”

Years Important Book Bears Garden Towns Trade Locals Witness Orange Port Antiquity Indigo

Book:Lord Jim and Nostromo: (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: Lord Jim and Nostromo: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age--flowers before they have bloomed and trees ere they begin to bear.”

May Doe Age Young Heaven Tree Flower Bears Garden Heavenly Select Nursery

Book:The Gospel in Ezekiel: A Series of Discourses

Source: The Gospel in Ezekiel: A Series of Discourses

“the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from that of the soil under pasture turf, or the breath that the garden gives off in great sighs of relief when it is relaxed and refreshed by a summer shower.”

Giving Different Earth Nature Bears Summer Garden Breaths Various Woods Tales Soil Relief Showers Leafs Sigh Relaxed Fragrance Mold Odor Pastures Turf Sigh Of Relief

Author:Mabel Osgood Wright

“I associate the garden with the whole experience of being alive, and so, there is nothing in the range of human experience that is separate from what the garden can signify in its eagerness and its insistence, and in its driving energy to live -- to grow, to bear fruit.”

Humans Whole Energy Grows Alive Bears Garden Fruit Driving Range Associates Human Experience Insistence Eagerness

Author:Stanley Kunitz

“The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor. And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to that garden or is yet to be grown.”

Men World Doe Philosophy Tree Bears Garden Fruit Gardener Visitors

Author:Kedar Joshi

“The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.”

World Seems Bears Garden Fruit Visible Labour Meaningless

Author:Pam Brown

“And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach conclusions about the vast splendour of its great gardens. They can, if their souls' strings are finely tuned, arrive with much less effort at the feeling of eternity; for everything we do, they may dream. And precisely where our deeds end, theirs begin to bear fruit.”

People Ifs Way May Soul Ends Feelings Dream Moving Effort Flower Bears Garden Eternity Embrace Fruit Deeds Conclusion Manage Strings Infirmity Splendour Embrace Life Great Garden

Book:Diaries of a Young Poet

Source: Diaries of a Young Poet

“I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.”

I Can Two Beautiful Bears Garden Gardening Can Not Loathe Garden Love

Author:Elton John

“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.”

Needs Years Bears Garden Endure Come Up Absence Neglect Nurturing Annuals Drought Funny Friendship

Author:Erma Bombeck

“The year is ended, and it only adds to my age; Spring has come, but I must take leave of my home. Alas, that the trees in this eastern garden, Without me, will still bear flowers.”

Years Stills Home Age Tree Flower Bears Spring Garden Add Eastern Alas April Springtime

Author:Su Ting

“True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.”

Bears Garden Roots Gardener Gloves

Book:A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry

Source: A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry

“For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.”

Mind Death Numbers Known Taken Greater Dying Design Bears Garden Tombs Impermanence

Author:Marie-Luise Gothein