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“I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark. Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.”

Source: The Inward Garden: Creating a Place of Beauty and Meaning

“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

“I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle.”

Men World Believe Country Saws Land Garden Fortune Spots Settling Texas Cowboy Prospects Texan West Texas

Author:Davy Crockett

“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

“So extraordinary is Nature with her choicest treasures, spending plant beauty as she spends sunshine, pouring it forth into land and sea, garden and desert. And so the beauty of lilies falls on angels and men, bears and squirrels, wolves and sheep, birds and bees.”

Men Fall Sea Land Bears Bird Angel Garden Plant Extraordinary Spending Treasure Desert Sunshine Sheep Bees Lilies Pouring Squirrels Land And Sea

Author:John Muir

“In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these plots composed only about 2% of the agricultural lands in the Soviet Union, they produced 25% of the food! When Soviets kept the wealth they created, they produced almost 16 times more than when it was taken from them at gunpoint, if necessary!”

Ifs Wealth Taken Land Late Garden Property Unions Plot Vegetables Soviet Soviet Union

Author:Mary Ruwart

“This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.”

Wisdom Politics Water Prayer Economy Land Spring Garden Woods Liberalism Portions Adequate

Author:Horace

“In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears.”

Care Language Land Flower Bears Garden Eastern Mystic Garlands Love And Care

Book:The poetical works of James Gates Percival

Source: The poetical works of James Gates Percival

“I'm waxed clean - hairless as the day as I was born. But don't say 'Tia has no pubic hair.' That's so clinical. Use a nice euphemism. Say 'She's mowed her secret garden' or 'She's cleared the way to the Promised Land.' Because that's what it is, right?”

Way Use Body Born Secret Nice Land Hair Garden Clean Clinicals Euphemism Promised Land Secret Garden Pubic Hair Tias

Author:Tia Carrere

“This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden”

Used Prayer Pieces Land Garden Used To Be

Author:Horace

“You may be on land, yet not in a garden.”

May Land Garden

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table.”

Bigs Land Garden Tables Caught Farms Cows Ducks Pigs Daddy Deer Supplements Squirrels Catfish

Author:Si Robertson

“Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms And flames laid waste our world, All that was left me was a little garden And thou within it, my beloved, my comrade.”

World Littles War Left Land Arms Waste Garden Beloved Flames Our World Comrade

Book:Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

Source: Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

“In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.”

“Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.”

Real Country Wealth Land Glory Garden Increase Trade Agriculture Stamina Real Strength

Book:A history of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: containing his speeches in Parliament : a considerable portion of his correspondence, when Secretary of State, upon French, Spanish, and American affairs, never before published with an account of the principal events and persons of his time, connected with his life, sentiments and administrations ; (Mit dem Bildnisse Pitts)

Source: A history of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: containing his speeches in Parliament : a considerable portion of his correspondence, when Secretary of State, upon French, Spanish, and American affairs, never before published with an account of the principal events and persons of his time, connected with his life, sentiments and administrations ; (Mit dem Bildnisse Pitts)

“The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.”

Needs Wells Water Lord Sun Failing Land Spring Garden Guides

Author:Isaiah

“Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.”

Firsts Has Beens Liberty Tree Land Garden Patriotism Land Of The Free

Book:The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors

“I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.”

Bits Pieces Land Spring Garden Woods Small Pieces

Author:Horace

“...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Needs Made Sometimes Use Running Land Waste Mouths Garden Endless Parish

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.”

May Home Action Influence Land Garden Wide Our Words Words And Actions

Author:Elizabeth Price Foley

“If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.”

“I think London is made up of tiny little pockets and villages, and lots of little sub-cultures. So, especially for an actor, it's a brilliant place to live because you've got inspiration all the time, wherever you are. You can turn a corner and you'll be in mansion houses with beautiful gardens and Ferraris, and you'll turn back on yourself and it'll be ghetto land. But I think that's brilliant.”

“I look back with gladness to the day when I found the path to the land of heart's desire, and thank Fate ceaselessly with a loud voice that she did not permit the town to sap all the years away while the heart was turning to wind-voices and flower-faces and the hands of kindly earth.”

Source: The Garden of Ignorance: The Experiences of a Woman in a Garden