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“But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.”

Ifs Wells Death Dies Heaven Dying Grew Garden Fairy Shields Gardener Careless Bud Supplies Impermanence Maids Praying To God Spray Drought Caterpillars

Author:William Browne

“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”

Death Loss Dying Failure Garden Series Triumph Gardening Gardener Impermanence Garden Love Spring Garden Spring Gardening

Book:At Seventy: A Journal

Source: At Seventy: A Journal

“I want death to find me planting my cabbages.”

Want Death Nature Dying Garden Find Me Impermanence Cabbage

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.”

Death Dies Justice Dying Garden Gardening Gardener Impermanence Spades

Author:Herbert V. Prochnow

“I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.”

Feels Death Passion Grows Dying Garden Spending Afternoon Delightful Impermanence Departing

Author:Emile Zola

“Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.”

Knows Earth Death Nature Dying Garden Breaths Smell Decay Scent Impermanence Desolation Regeneration Fertilizer Garden Love Compost

Book:Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads

Source: Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads

“There is a kind of immortality in every garden.”

Kind Death Time Dying Garden Immortality Impermanence

Author:Gladys Taber

“Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.”

Ends Death Dying Garden Cherish Thorns Impermanence Ankles

Author:Robert Hunter

“Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes, that there are none more fit to bury our dead in than in our Gardens and Groves, where our Beds may be decked with verdant and fragrant flowers, Trees and Perennial Plants, the most natural and instructive Hieroglyphics of our expected Resurrection and Immortality.”

May Death Religion Causes Natural Tree Dying Flower Fit Bed Garden Blessed Plant Expected Immortality Savior Resurrection Impermanence Grove Oratory Hieroglyphics Fragrant Flowers

Author:John Evelyn

“In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.”

Whole Death Growth Creativity Creative Doors Mystery Dying Flower Birth Holy Garden Cycles Far Away Impermanence

Book:From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

“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