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“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.”

People Pleasure Garden Enjoyment Gardening Yards Gardener

Author:Thalassa Cruso

“Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.”

Would Be Nature Memories Pleasure Wise Plans Garden Plant Smell Nostalgia Scent Being Wise Nostalgic

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.”

Ifs May Eye Earth Wish Pleasure Garden Fruit Curiosity Possession Appearance Temptation Curse Realms Pluck Glisten

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything that destroys the wildlife of an area for even a single year has deprived him of pleasure to which he has a legitimate right. This is a valid point of view.”

Years Joy Pleasure Views Bird Areas Garden Point Of View Regions Hunters Deprived Wildlife Explorers Fisherman Watchers Silent Spring

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.”

Feels I Can Two Hours Pleasure Five Minutes Garden Gardening Five Minutes Dazed

Book:The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

Source: The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

“There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.”

Stars Pleasure Flower Garden Autumn Noticing Hue Flower Garden

Author:Maria Mitchell

“The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure.”

Simple Pleasure Adventure Mouths Garden Abundance Sensations Horns Tomatoes

Author:Muriel Barbery

“As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.”

Writing Humans Bits Human Beings Pleasure Rooms Stupid Creating Garden Piano Tunes Digital Sheer Organisms Recipes Inventing Composing Chili

Author:Gary Hamel

“Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.”

Humans Pleasure Essentials Garden Gardening Garden Love Inspirational Gardening Horticulture

Author:Francis Bacon

“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”

“Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.”

Order Simple Pleasure Talking Flower Garden Intense Apples Adam Thirst Eden Garden Of Eden Simple Pleasures Thirst For Knowledge Picking Flowers

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.”

Looks Soul Done Prayer Pleasure Lord Practice Garden Roots Plant Setting Settings Soil Weed Majesty Beginners

Book:The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

Source: The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself