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Gardening Quotes and other wisdoms... |
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"May you always find three welcomes: In a garden during summer, At a fireside during winter, And whatever the day or season, in the kind eyes of a friend." - old Gaelic prayer |
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"The sun at home warms better than the sun elsewhere." - Albanian proverb |
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"This has long been my fondest desire: to own a piece of earth of modest but ample size and there by my house to set a garden and in it to be blessed with fresh flowing water and an overhanging patch of the noble forest." – Horace (Italian poet, 65-8 B.C.), as quoted on an inscription in a Snohomish, Washington garden |
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"Though an old man, I am but a young gardener." - Thomas Jefferson |
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"There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments." |
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beauty gets so much more out of life....Beauty helps us to get by. It
is a terrific pain killer. Beauty can fill a void left by a lost love,
sad childhood or bad investment. A walk in the park always cheers you
up. I think the human spirit needs plants: we use them to access our
true self. Never be afraid to receive from Nature what Nature wants to
give back to you
– your sense of
wonder." - Thomas Hobbs in Shocking Beauty |
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| "The greatest gains I've seen in
people's lives is when they've accomplished something good for the earth." - Dennis Maloney Corrections Chief for Deschutes County, OR as quoted in Oregonian article, June 20, 1999 |
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"Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure." - Edward Conze |
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"I love being asked to identify plants, and I don't know which gives me
more pleasure: to know what they are or not to know what they are." - Elizabeth Lawrence in Through the Garden Gate |
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"Walking around an early spring garden— going nowhere." - Kyoshi |
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"We feel there is never a time to leave the landscape unchanged for it is
change that keeps us enthusiastic about the next season." - Marjory, Roger and Eric Gossler in Gossler Farms Nursery catalog, 1997-98 |
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"...Thus the shade gardener begins as a grower of plants and becomes the
cultivator of a certain phase of mind: that of retreat and solitude, of the need
to drop out, to disappear...as all of us must, I think, hanker to do now and
again. For some of us, surely, the serenity of shade gardening—as the
counterpart of sun gardening, with its festive mood—is just what the inner
doctor orders." - George Schenk in The Complete Shade Gardener |
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"Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee." - Job 12:8 |
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"The doctors told me I would never walk, but my mother told me I would, so I believed my mother." - Wilma Rudolph, childhood polio victim and 3-time Olympic Gold Medalist |
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"Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads!" - Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future, 1985 |
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"I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as making a 'life'." - Maya Angelou |
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"If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain
with you
all the days of your life." -Frank Lloyd Wright |
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