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GARDENING QUOTES - 22



The watering of a garden requires as much judgement as the seasoning of a soup.   Helena Rutherford Ely


Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an art at all.   M.G. Van Rensselaer


May all of your weeds be wildflowers.   author unknown


If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.   Marcus Tullius Cicero


There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.   John Steinbeck


The lily was created on the third day, early in the morning when the Almighty was especially full of good ideas.   Michael Jefferson-Brown


If it's rare, we want it. If it's tiny and impossible to grow, we've got to have it. It it's brown, looks dead, and has black flowers, we'll kill for it.   Ken Druse


Don't wear perfume in the garden-unless you want to be pollinated by bees.   Anne Raver


To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.   Mahatma Gandhi


Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.   Russell Page


The desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the crocus it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with joy and singing.   Isaiah 35: 1-2


Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.   Mary Cantwell




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