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August 06, 2005

Good Garden Quotations

In the process of our move to our new office, as I was filtering through some books I stumbled up Maria Polushkin Robbins' book A Gardener's Bouquet of Quotations, and I wanted to share a few of my favorites.

A Garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.
-Anonymous

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
-Sir Walter Scott

I don't know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice.
-Rowland A. Browne

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.
-Lawrence Halprin

But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else. In blaming nature, people mistake the culprit. Weeds are people's idea, not nature's.
-Anonymous

Again rejoicing Nature sees
Her robe assume its vernal hues
Her leafy locks wave in the breeze,
All freshly steeped in morning dews.
-Robert Burns

As is the garden such is the gardener.
A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
-Francis Bacon

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Unless you take care, the sun will pin you down. Put a hat on that foolish head of yours when you go out into the fields.
-Farmers Almanac

He who plants a garden, plants happiness.
-Chinese Proverb

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

What I enjoy is not the fruits alone, but I also enjoy the soil itself, its nature and its power.
-Cicero

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Posted by Michael O'Connell at August 6, 2005 08:57 PM

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