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  • I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

    Patience   Eye   Garden  
  • God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

    Nature   Garden   Firsts  
    Essays "Of Gardens" (1625)
  • To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

    Life   Men   Garden  
    Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

  • It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

  • To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  • If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

  • I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.

  • When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.

  • The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

    Men   Garden   Essentials  
    Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

    Garden   Joy   Imagine  
  • Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

    Funny   Work   Sarcasm  
    Orson Scott Card (2013). “Homebody: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins
  • The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

  • I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.

    Weed   Garden   Plant  
  • Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of the most powerful things an individual can do - to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind.

    "Why Bother?". www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2008.
  • What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

  • Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps.

    Love   Garden   Eden  
    Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.10
  • If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

    Garden   Would Be   Plant  
  • As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It is like planting a garden. You do not cause the seeds to grow. To grow is their natural purpose in life.

    Garden   Leader   Growth  
  • Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.

  • A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

  • A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

    Love   Jobs   Garden  
    Liberty Hyde Bailey (1925). “The Pruning-manual: Being the 18th Ed., Rev. and Reset, of the Pruning-book which was First Published in 1898”
  • It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

    George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4197, Delphi Classics
  • He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

    Nature   Garden   Tree  
  • Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

    Kids   Garden   Miracle  
  • 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 and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

    Zero   Garden   Thinking  
    "Don't give up". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.
  • If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

  • Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1236, Delphi Classics
  • As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

  • Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

    Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.238, Rowman & Littlefield
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