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A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.
Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.
Under the heat haze the great garden lived like a happy beast,
How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.
There is no virtue which I do not attribute to the man who loves to project and execute gardening.
I possessed my soul and finally, though the delay was long, perceived some appearances of bloom.
It would be unreasonable to demand that anything as lovely as an herbaceous border
A man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
Who would look dangerously up at Planets that might safely look downe at Plants?
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
No poet I've ever heard of has written an ode to a load of manure.
There is not a blade of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
Pessimistic moods, like caterpillars, feed on the gardener's happiness.
Man was made for better things than pruning his rose trees.
Hedges, as such, are universally bad. They discover art in nature's province.
The ornament whose merit soonest fades is the hermitage or scene adapted to contemplation.
Genesis got it wrong. Adam should have been exiled from town
I'm afraid I can never be quite serious about a garden.
I recoil only from black plastic. Black plastic is not a mulch; it is an abomination.
If one indulges in extravagant earthmoving and planting, valuing colorful effects,
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[CyberSalad]
[Garden Pursuits]
[Garden Quotes]
[Garden Journal]
[The Language of Flowers]
[Monthly Chores]
[Garden Poetry] [Zone Maps] [First/Last Frost Dates] [Trees] [Ground Covers] [Fruit/Berries] [Water Garden] [Gardening Links] [Vegetables] [Lawn] [Raised Beds] [Bulbs, etc.] [Shrubs] [Perennials] [Annuals] [Herbs] |