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Ivy Icon There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
John Ruskin (1851)

Ivy Icon A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no Garden belonging to it,
is more like a Prison than a House.
William Coles (1656)

Ivy Icon We sit in other people's gardens, why not in our own?
Mirabel Osler

Ivy Icon Gardening, reading about gardening, and writing about gardening
are all one; no one can garden alone.
Elizabeth Lawrence

Ivy Icon Nature does not hesitate to interfere with me. So I do not hesitate to tamper with it.
Henry Mitchell

Ivy Icon Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
George Herbert (1640)

Ivy Icon I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've
got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.
Allen Lacy

Ivy Icon Gardening is civil and social, but wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
Henry David Thoreau (1862)

Ivy Icon To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
William Blake (1793)

Ivy Icon Gardening seems an easy art, for infinitude is almost as well suggested in a small plot as a large one.
Robert Harbison

Ivy Icon A garden should always look bigger than it really is.
Alexander le Blond (1712)

Ivy Icon Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything--except itself.
May Sarton

Ivy Icon Nature abhors a garden.
Michael Pollan

Ivy Icon A garden was the primitive prison, till man, with Promethean felicity and boldness,
luckily sinned himself out of it.
Charles Lamb (1830)

Ivy Icon The very statement that there is but one way to make a garden is its own refutation.
William Robinson

Ivy Icon The rules of garden are the rules of art; the rules of the rock-garden
are the more and awful rules of Nature herself.
Reginald Farrer

Ivy Icon I am fonder of my garden for the trouble it gives me.
Reginald Farrer

Ivy Icon No class of folk is more keenly aware of how shaky the world is.
Henry Mitchell

Ivy Icon A garden is but Nature debauched.
Henry David Thoreau (1862)

Ivy Icon A Gardener is never rich, yet he is ever raking together.
Wye Saltonstall (1635)

Ivy Icon One of the attractive things about flowers is their beautiful reserve.
Henry David Thoreau (1862)

Ivy Icon Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth.
Sir Thomas Browne (1658)

Ivy Icon Sometimes the tiniest flowers smell the sweetest.
Emilie Barnes


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