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“"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."”

Ifs May Art Reason Would Be Cry Fields Arms Please Essentials Garden Ancient Spread Noble Enthusiasm Lions Gardening Eagles Lilies

Author:Abraham Cowley

“It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.”

Thinking Trying Lying Night Darkness Air Mines Quiet Garden Window Police Spread Russia Delicious Glimpse Spy Nightingales Restful

Author:Maxim Gorky

“On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; It paves with pearl the garden-walk; And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk And snivering stem its magic weaves A mantle fair as lily-leaves.”

Walks Magic Fairs Garden Spread Storm Snow Roof Stem Pearls Lilies Stalking Curb Ivory Turf Snow Storms

Author:John Townsend Trowbridge

“yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.”

Life Seems Common Morning Wind Glory Garden Casts Spread Plot Torn Fragrance Scarce Beam Petals Transience

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare starving in the midst of its abundance: the whole wilderness has blossomed into a garden; but they feel as reptiles that infest it.”

Feels Whole Eye Fields Garden Spread Luxury Plenty Boards Abundance Native Midst Wilderness Native American Starving Excluded Banquets Reptiles

Author:Washington Irving

“There is a great power within that when used in beauty and immaculate purity can cure and heal and cause miracles. When you use it it spreads like a magic garden and when you do not use it it recedes from you.”

Use Used Causes Magic Garden Miracle Spread Heal Cures Purity Great Power Immaculate

Author:Lord Buckley

“Wood's not natural mulch for a woodland garden. Do you see forest trees shatter into a zillion pieces and fall? No. They fall, then decompose, then spread.”

Fall Natural Pieces Tree Garden Spread Woods Forests Woodland

Author:Janet Macunovich

“When the ice of winter holds the house in its rigid grip, when curtains are drawn against that vast frozen waste of landscape, almost like a hibernating hedgehog I relish the security of being withdrawn from all that summer ferment that is long since past. Then is the time for reappraisal: to spread out, limp and receptive, and let garden thoughts rise to the surface. They emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.”

Long Facts Past House Security Source Waste Summer Garden Winter Spread Surface Ice Landscape Stillness Frozen Curtains January Relish Receptive Hedgehogs

Author:Mirabel Osler

“They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in God's gardens they keep still, like many, many intervals in his might and melody. Only when they spread their wings are they wakers of a wind: as if God with his broad sculptor- hands leafed through the pages in the dark book of the beginning.”

Ifs Stills Book Soul Sometimes Dream Hands Might Dark Sin Wind Pages Mouths Garden Longing Tired Wings Spread Melody Broads Intervals Sculptors Seamless

Book:The Book of Images

Source: The Book of Images

“Catelyn had never liked this godswood. She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork of the Trident. The godswood there was a garden, bright and airy, where tall redwoods spread dappled shadows across tinkling streams, birds sang from hidden nests, and the air was spicy with the scent of flowers.”

Born Air Flower Bird Shadow Red Garden South Spread Streams Tall Scent Nests Forks Airy Spicy Redwoods

Book:George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.”

Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

“Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblance's that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.”

“Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.”

Light Eye Joy Sides Magic Color Exercise Garden Studios Spread Painter Tone Extensions Adaptation Vibrations Seductive Monet

Author:Georges Clemenceau

“The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride.”

Source Pride Built Garden Spread Architecture Toilets Australian Suburbs Backyards Playgrounds

Author:Pete Munro

“People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things.”

“My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.”

Knows Garden University Spread Take Me

Author:Howard Finster