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“There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.”

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Book:The Garden That I Love

Source: The Garden That I Love

“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”

Source: Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

“Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.”

Source: The writings of John Burroughs

“I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.”

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Book:In the Garden ...

Source: In the Garden ...

“What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.”

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Book:The Solitary Summer

Source: The Solitary Summer

“Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.”

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Book:Silva: or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions

Source: Silva: or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions

“The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.”

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Author:Vita Sackville-West

“... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.”

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Author:Nan Fairbrother

“They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.”

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Author:Thomas More

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

“Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.”

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Book:The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne