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Ivy Icon To the man with brown fingers, a plant may just as well be inanimate,
and by the time he is finished with it, it is.
Christopher Lloyd

Ivy Icon It must at least be confessed that to embellish the form of nature is an innocent amusement.
Samuel Johnson (1781)

Ivy Icon It would be worthwile having a cultivated garden if only to see what Autumn does to it.
Alfred Austin (1894)

Ivy Icon A garden is never so good as it will be next year.
Thomas Cooper

Ivy Icon A gardener must not feel sorry for himself, even in winter, and no matter how great the cause.
Henry Mitchell

Ivy Icon September...what a turnover, what a watershed of the year.
V. Sackville-West

Ivy Icon We may see on a spring day in one place more beauty in a wood than in any garden.
William Robinson

Ivy Icon They have climate in England; we have weather.
Helena Rutherfurd Ely

Ivy Icon No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden.
Hugh Johnson

Ivy Icon The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone.
Richard Jefferies

Ivy Icon Who can endure a cabbage bed in October?
Jane Austen (1817)

Ivy Icon Hurrah!...it is a frost!--the dahlias are dead.
R. S. Surtees (1843)

Ivy Icon There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Lubbock, Lord Avebury

Ivy Icon I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
May Sarton

Ivy Icon Oh, the incredible profit by digging of ground.
Thomas Fuller (1662)

Ivy Icon I must own that I would do almost anything, and grow almost anything, for the sake of a fragrance.
Reginald Farrer

Ivy Icon He leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden.
Horace Walpole (1780)

Ivy Icon There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon.
Alice Maynell

Ivy Icon Many of the ancients do poorly live in the single names of Vegetables.
Sir Thomas Browne (1658)

Ivy Icon To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
Prince Charles

Ivy Icon Cabbage. A familiar garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Ambrose Bierce

Ivy Icon A cauliflower is a cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain

Ivy Icon I want death to find me planting my cabbages.
Michel de Montaigne (1592)


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