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“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”

“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

“A flower is an educated weed.”

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Author:Luther Burbank

“While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”

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

Source: Bluebeard's Egg

“As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“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

“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

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Book:Monet at Giverny

Source: Monet at Giverny

“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”

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Book:The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering

Source: The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering

“I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.”

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Author:Martha Smith

“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.”

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Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.”

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Author:Emily Dickinson

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

“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”

“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”

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Book:Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Source: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

“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

“There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.”

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Author:John Steinbeck

“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”

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Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.”

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Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

“I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.”

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Author:Richard K. Diran

“How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green... the flowers are more fragrant... and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.”

“Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.”

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Author:E. O. Wilson

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

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