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Ivy Icon My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations,
affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
Alexander Smith

Ivy Icon A garden is a place to feel the beauty of solitude.
Bob Barnes

Ivy Icon If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses,
what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?
G. K. Chesterton

Ivy IconOne day, the gardener realizes that what she is doing out there is actually teaching herself
to garden by performing a series of experiments. This is a pivotal moment.
Margaret Roach

Ivy Icon But each spring...a gardening instinct, sore as the sap rising in the trees, stirs within us.
We look about and decide to tame another little bit of ground .
Lewis Gannett

Ivy Icon We have descended into the garden and caught 300 slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful
and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.
Evelyn Underhill

Ivy Icon There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ivy Icon In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.
Louise Beebe Wilder

Ivy Icon A plant is like a self-made man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire,
if we only treat him his own way.
Goethe

Ivy Icon The best I can find to say of these coarse rampageous violets is that they will thrive anywhere...
Reginald Farrer

Ivy Icon The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.
Plutarch

Ivy Icon Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?
Henry David Thoreau

Ivy Icon You cannot forget if you would those golden kisses all over the cheeks of the meadow, queerly called "dandelions."
Henry Ward Beecher

Ivy Icon I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth,
and so I got strength like Antaeus. but why should I raise them? Only Heaven knows.
Henry David Thoreau

Ivy Icon What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message,
sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.
Henry Ward Beecher

Ivy Icon The man around the corner keeps experimenting with new flowers every year,
and now has quite an extensive list of things he can't grow.
William Vaughn, b. 1577

Ivy Icon In the end, there is really nothing more important than taking care of the earth and letting it take care of you.
Charles Scott

Ivy Icon In a garden...growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter.
And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all will be well.
Jerzy Kosinski

Ivy Icon I know nothing whatever of many aspects of gardening and very little of a great many more.
But I never saw a garden from which I did not learn something
and seldom met a gardener who did not, in one way or another, help me.
Russell Page

Ivy Icon Grass is always the most elegant, more elegant than rocks and trees,
trees are elegant and so are rocks but grass is more so.
Gertrude Stein

Ivy Icon The true gardener must be brutal, and imaginative for the future.
V. Sackville-West

Ivy Icon Plants in pots are like animals in a zoo--they're totally dependent on their keepers.
John Van de Water

Ivy Icon Begin early. But it's never too late to start.
Emilie Barnes


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