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Ivy Icon No garden is without weeds.
Thomas Fuller

Ivy Icon What is a weed? For me it is a plant out of place.
Donald Culross Peattie

Ivy Icon What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ivy Icon A weed is no more than a flower in disquise.
James Russell Lowell

Ivy Icon One of the most important things a gardener does is look.
The rewards are immeasurable.
Elsa Bakalar

Ivy Icon Most people don't see the sun, soil, bugs, seeds, plants, moon, water, clouds,
and wind the way gardeners do.
Jamie Jobb

Ivy Icon How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under
roses and violets and morning dew!
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ivy Icon Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.
Henry Mitchell

Ivy Icon Flowers and plants are silent presences; they nourish every sense but the ear.
Mary Sarton

Ivy Icon Flowers are our greatest silent friends.
Jim G. Brown

Ivy Icon Creating a garden is like making music:
The least distraction is apt to destroy the melodic line.
Beverly Nichols

Ivy Icon Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors.
Mary Cantwell

Ivy Icon At the heart of gardening there is a belief in the miraculous.
Mirabel Osler

Ivy Icon One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
W. E. Johns

Ivy Icon Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.
William Shakespeare

Ivy Icon A good gardener does not expect miracles.
Jules Oravetz, Sr.

Ivy Icon With plants, persuasion is better than force.
Elsa Bakalar

Ivy Icon An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.
Richard Briers

Ivy Icon Gardening is the best therapy in the world.
C. Z. Guest

Ivy Icon If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
Linnaeus

Ivy Icon Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.
It is sad that Nature will play such tricks with us poor mortals.
Nathaniel Hawthorn

Ivy Icon The fair-weather gardener, who will do nothing except when the wind and weather
and everything else are favorable, is never master of his craft.
Henry Ellacombe


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