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“A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.”

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Author:Gertrude Jekyll

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

Source: Bluebeard's Egg

“The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.”

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Author:William Howard Adams

“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.”

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Author:Alfred Austin

“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”

Source: Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

“What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.”

Source: Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

“Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.”

“It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.”

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Book:The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”

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

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Book:At Seventy: A Journal

Source: At Seventy: A Journal

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”

Source: Caligula and Three Other Plays

“April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”

“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.”

Source: How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening

“Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.”

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Book:All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist

Source: All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist

“Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.”

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Author:Walter Scott

“The unmulched garden looks to me like some naked thing which for one reason or another would be better off with a few clothes on.”

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Book:How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening

Source: How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening