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“Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner?”

Thinking Character Shows Bits Land Garden Owners

Book:Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings

Source: Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings

“The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.”

Pieces Land Garden Owners Footprint Fertilizer

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.”

Ifs Years Doe Lying Given Pay Land Conditions Fields Produce Products Return Garden Plant Owners Gardener

Author:Hammurabi

“If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.”

Ifs Men Years Firsts Use Used Three House Given Taken Fields Return Garden Claims Possession Owners Three Years

Author:Hammurabi

“Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.”

Ifs Design Garden Sake Patterns Disaster Tendencies Designer Frustration Owners

Author:Thomas Haden Church

“If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner; but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.”

Ifs Giving Doe Dies Fields Garden Owners Thieves Pigs Meadows

Author:Orson Scott Card

“The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.”

Should Enjoy Flower Wall Fine Garden Distance Treated Owners Iron Virtuous Fragrance Guarded Relics Flower Garden Virtuous Woman

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.”

Should Self States Time Change Journey Adventure Essentials Garden Constant Critical Experiments Owners Gardening Expansion Fluid Inquisitive

Author:H. E. Bates

“I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.”

Should Fit Taste Comfortable Clothes Garden Envy Owners

Author:Gertrude Jekyll