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Gardening  Quotes
Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.

—J. Aleksandr Wootton

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One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.

—Douglas Tallamy

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We are exploring together. We are cultivating a garden together, backs to the sun. The question is a hoe in our hands and we are digging beneath the hard and crusty surface to the rich...

—Parker J.

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We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.

—Carol Deppe

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GardeningHealthJoy
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Doesn’t matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you ANYWAY.

—Felder Rushing

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Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.

—Tom Turner

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Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to...

—Christopher Lloyd

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The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think...

—Michael Pollan

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Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing...

—Wendell Berry

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I was gardening when I saw this snail/slug thing disguised as a leaf. Ah, isn’t fall a wonderful time to slowly fall in love?

—Jarod Kintz

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When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that’s a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they’re getting enough water and if their...

—Rob Bell

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May I a small house and large garden have;And a few friends,And many books, both true.

—Abraham Cowley

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Yellow flowers are like physical manifestations of sunlight. I’m growing a garden of sunglasses just to help save eyesight and make the world a little bit cooler.

—Jarod Kintz

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Where have all the flowers of old Singapore gone? Gone, one would imagine, with the old folks and homes

—Thien

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She was a gardener of the ruthless type, and went for any small green thing that incautiously showed a timid spike above the earth, suspecting it of being a weed. She had had a slight...

—E.F. Benson

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The green thumb is equable in the face of nature’s uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid...

—Michael Pollan

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It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is...

—Shannon L. Alder

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In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture—it won’t accrue value as time goes on. Time...

—Jamaica Kincaid

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Planting a flower’s like opening a book, because either way you’re starting something. And your garden’s your library.

—Nora Roberts

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Garden design is all about concealment and surprise.

—Andrew Crofts

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As an angler and a gardener, I cherish each drop of rain that falls.

—Fennel Hudson

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By bringing a soulful consciousness to gardening sacred space can be created outdoors.

—S. Kelley

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But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

—Edna Ferber

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A garden should make you feel you’ve entered privileged space — a place not just set apart but reverberant — and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind...

—Michael Pollan

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When tended the right way, beauty multiplies.

—Shannon Wiersbitzky

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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

—Horace Walpole

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If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. ‘Green fingers’ are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are...

—Russell Page

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There is a tale…It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.

—Cameron Dokey

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It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in ’em,” said Captain Jim. “When I ponder on them seeds I don’t find it nowise hard to...

—L.M. Montgomery

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Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature.

—S. Kelley

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GardeningSacred-SpaceShamanism
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A weed is but an unloved flower.

—Ella Wheeler

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Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatever...

—Michael Pollan

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A flowing flurry of flowers fell to the floor when I fell in love, as if my heart were a garden that gushed forth and flooded her being with the fragrance of romance.

—Jarod Kintz

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Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.

—Ron Brackin

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Often I’ll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there’s no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the...

—Andy Couturier

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Everything is an art, which must be mastered.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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A garden is beautiful only when it is filled with people; they determine its beauty

—Seth Adam

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To-day I thinkOnly with scents, – scents dead leaves yield,And bracken, and wild carrot’s seed,And the square mustard field;Odours that riseWhen the spade wounds the root of tree,Rose, currant, raspberry, or goutweed,Rhubarb or celery;The smoke’s...

—Edward Thomas

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Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn’t necessarily expect to witness.

—Michael Pollan

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Gardening is about cheating, about persuading unlikely plants to survive in unlikely places and when that trick is well accomplished the results can be highly satisfying.

—David Wheeler

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Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood...

—Ray Bradbury

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GardeningLife-And-Living
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Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.

—Andy Couturier

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Dandelions, like all things in nature are beautiful when you take the time to pay attention to them.

—June Stoyer

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I’ll have to remember you think that way,” Nathan said.

—R.T. Wolfe

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He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep...

—J.M. Coetzee

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EarthGardeningWar
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Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

—Michael Pollan

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The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize...

—Eliot Coleman

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She was a woman with a broom or a dust-pan or a washrag or a mixing spoon in her hand. You sawher cutting piecrust in the morning, humming to it, or yousaw her setting out...

—Ray Bradbury

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But gardening is none of that, really. Strip away the gadgets and the techniques, the books and the magazines and the soil test kits, and what you’re left with, at the end of the day,...

—Amy Stewart

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No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

—Marty Rubin

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