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A garden is the interface between the house and the rest of civilization. Geoffrey Charlesworth
Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks. Henry Mitchell
To lock horns with Nature, the only equipment you really need is the constitution
of Paul Bunyan and the basic training of a commando. S. J. Perelman
There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners. William Shakespeare
A country parson without some knowledge of plants
is surely as incomplete as a country parsonage without a garden. Canon Henry Ellacombe (1895)
God gave us memories that we may have roses in December. J. M. Barrie
There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener. Karel Capek
Men are like plants--they never grow happily unless they are well cultivated. Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1721)
And I beseech you, forget not to informe yourselfe
as dilligently as may be, in things that belong to gardening. John Evelyn (1706)
Nothing is more completely the child of Art than a Garden. Sir Walter Scott
Fathers, instill in your children the garden-mania. Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne (1781)
Correct handling of flowers refines the personality. Gustie L. Herrigel
If one were as good a gardener in practice as one is in theory, what a garden would one create! V. Sackville-West
It is in society as in nature--not the useful, but the ornamental, that strikes the imagination. Sir Humphrey Davy (1829)
Odd as it may appear, a gardener does not grow from seed, shoot, bulb, rhizome, or cutting,
but from experience, surroundings, and natural conditions. Karel Capek
We must cultivate our garden. Voltaire (1758)
To make a great garden, one must have a great idea or a great opportunity. Sir George Sitwell
O amateurs of gardening, be amateurs of humanity also. Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne (1781)
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. John Ruskin
Nobody is fond of fading flowers. Thomas Fuller (1732)
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish,
and he does so by making a garden and building a wall. Robert Frost
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. Thomas Fuller (1732)

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