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Source: The Pruning-manual: Being the 18th Ed., Rev. and Reset, of the Pruning-book which was First Published in 1898

“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”

“I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.”

Garden Plant Weed Gardening Hardy Planting A Garden

Author:Peter Smithers

“Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.”

Energy Animal Land Garden Plant Soil Fountain Farming Gardener Circuits Plants And Animals

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.”

Love Persons Growth Work Garden Plant Spots Yield

Author:Jeff Cox

“The only thing that endures over time is the 'Law of the Farm.' You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect to reap the harvest.”

Ifs Law Time Water Garden Plant Endure Seeds Preparation Farms Harvest Reap

Author:Stephen Covey

“He who plants a tree, plants a hope.”

“Those who plant trees plant hope.”

Tree Garden Plant Plant A Tree

Author:Lucy Larcom

“If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity”

People Ifs Needs Kind Hands Form Opportunity Pay Please Garden Murder Raises Plant Weed Fragile Greenhouses Dandelions

Author:Robert Fulghum

“To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.”

Mean Easy Flower Garden Plant Borders Colour Schemes Easy Things

Book:Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden

Source: Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden

“To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.”

Garden Plant Landscape Composition

Book:Gardens in the Modern Landscape: A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition

Source: Gardens in the Modern Landscape: A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition

“My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.”

Water Groups Tree Rocks Fields Objects Garden Plant Woods Occupation Shrubs

Author:Russell Page

“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel.”

Needs Nature Tree Creation Poet Garden Plant Forests Reserved Plant A Tree Shovels Forests And Trees Pine Trees Tree Planting Plants And Trees Inspirational Tree

Author:Aldo Leopold

“Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?”

Ifs Knows Enough Time Goal Imagination Flower Garden Plant Historical Lifetime Accomplish Circles Wheels Site Gardener Continuum Full Circle

Author:Francis Cabot

“The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?”

Inspirational Heart Spiritual Grows Fear Compassion Garden Plant Seeds Resentment

Author:Jack Kornfield

“I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.”

Ifs Tree Garden Plant Gardening Grandchildren Back Again Fish Tanks

Author:Michael Fish

“Our intentions - noticed or unnoticed, gross or subtle contribute either to our suffering or to our happiness. Intentions are sometimes called seeds. The garden you grow depends on the seeds you plant and water. Long after a deed is done, the trace or momentum of the intention behind it remains as a seed, conditioning our future happiness or unhappiness.”

Source: The Issue at Hand

“You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.”

Littles Beautiful Life Is Grows Bits Alive Flower Little Bit Garden Appreciate Plant Seeds Live Life Life Changing Beautiful Flower

Author:Oscar de la Renta

“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

“Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.”

Thinking Needs Different Garden Relation Plant Symphony Different Times Conducting Placement

Author:Elisabeth Murdoch

“Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden.”

Ifs Way Care Tree Garden Plant Expensive Extravagant

Author:Elisabeth Murdoch

“Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the loss of the world of senses is possible, I shall grieve for no person however once agonisingly desired and passionately beloved, for no emotional adventure however uplifting, for no success however warming, no infamy however exhilarating, for nothing half so much as I shall grieve to the loss of the earth itself, the soil, the seeds, the plants, the very weeds... It is a love almost overriding my love the words that could express that love.”

Ifs World Persons Earth Loss Pleasure Half Emotional Adventure Garden Plant Seeds Senses Uplifting Beloved Grieving Soil Dimensions Weed After Death Exhilarating Infamy

Author:Hal Porter

“It is crazy even to ask what creativity is. It would be just as useful to interview a caraway plant in your garden and ask: "How did you decided to be a spice?"”

Writing Would Be Asks Creativity Crazy Garden Decided Plant Interviews Spices

Author:Eeva Kilpi

“If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.”

Ifs Wells Long Garden Plant Weed

Author:Davies Gilbert

“Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.”

Would Be Care Chance Compassion Tree Grew Quiet Garden Plant Heavy Generosity Grass Sunshine Hearted Open Heart

Book:Being There

Source: Being There

“I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.”

Way Needs Play Today Half Tree Garden Plant Fart Half Way Sharpening Pruning Old Farts Japanese Gardens

Author:Jason Bateman

“The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.”

People Years Able Waiting Learning Hundred Garden Plant Cherish Pot Potatoes Herbs

Book:Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters

Source: Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters

“My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.”

Thinking Home Perfect Cities Balance Garden Plant Favourite Woodland Perfect Balance Foxgloves

Author:Clive Anderson

“Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.”

Knows Flower Garden Plant Circles Wheels Gardener Continuum Full Circle

Author:Francis Cabot Lowell

“I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.”

Garden Plant Holes Weed Digging Tapping Digging A Hole Tidying Up

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.”

Giving Trying Children Matter Opportunity Grows Garden Plant

Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey

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