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“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

“I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.”

“And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')”

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Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.”

Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

“I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)

“Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I - or rather the blessed Not-I - cared to look at.”

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Book:The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

Source: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

“Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content.”

“Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!”

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Author:Rudyard Kipling

“A garden is the best alternative therapy.”

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Author:Germaine Greer

“What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.”

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Book:A Way to Get Wealth: Containing Six Principall Vocations, Or Callings, in which Every Good Husband Or House-wife May Lawfully Imploy Themselves ...

Source: A Way to Get Wealth: Containing Six Principall Vocations, Or Callings, in which Every Good Husband Or House-wife May Lawfully Imploy Themselves ...

“The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.”

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Book:The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks

Source: The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks

“A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.”

“For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.”

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Book:Gandhi on Nehru

Source: Gandhi on Nehru

“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.”

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Author:John Evelyn

“The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment, will wait and hope for the moment when it seems to achieve perfection. Awareness of when such moments are most likely helps to make them happen; they will not be entirely accidental but anticipated; everything will be planned to encourage them.”

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Author:Susan Hill

“Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.”

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Author:Aldous Huxley