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Ivy Icon Light is the engine of plants.
Christopher Reed

Ivy Icon There is nothing very beautiful about the sunflower; but I am told
that it bends toward the sun, which is strange and rather appealing.
Sei Shonagon (Tenth Century)

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

Ivy Icon My garden is an honest place. Every tree and every vine are incapable of concealment,
and tell after two or three months exactly what sort of treatment they have had.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ivy Icon A little studied negligence is becoming to a garden.
Eleanor Perenyi

Ivy Icon It is unchristian to hedge from the sight of others the beauties of nature
which it has been our good fortune to create or secure.
Frank J. Scott (1870)

Ivy Icon The area of a handsome Garden may take up thirty or forty Acres, not more.
Philip Miller (1724)

Ivy Icon The garden that is finished is dead.
H. E. Bates

Ivy Icon Flowers...are richness enough in the garden picture. To add further ornamentation is to distract.
Russell Page

Ivy Icon Style is a matter of taste, design a matter of principles.
Thomas Church

Ivy Icon Once it has a toehold, incongruity has a way of advancing
systematically through the garden like quackgrass.
Des Kennedy

Ivy Icon Plans should be made on the ground to fit the place,
and not the place made to suit some plan out of a book.
William Robinson

Ivy Icon When smiling lawns and tasteful cottages begin to embellish a country,
we know that order and culture are established.
Andrew Jackson Downing (1841)

Ivy Icon A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell (1891)

Ivy Icon Go forwarde in the name of God, graffe, set, plant, and nourish up trees in every corner of your grounde.
John Gerard (1597)

Ivy Icon Trees display the effects of breeding quite as much as horses, dogs, or men.
William Howitt (1842)

Ivy Icon Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone.
Jens Jensen

Ivy Icon I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather

Ivy Icon Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
George Herbert (1640)

Ivy Icon He that plants trees loves others beside himself.
Thomas Fuller (1732)

Ivy Icon Except during the nine months before he draws breath,
no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw

Ivy Icon Orchards are even more personal in their charms than gardens,
as they are more nearly human creations.
Amos Bronson Alcott (1868)

Ivy Icon You reap what you sow. But there will be surprizes.
Emilie Barnes


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