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New Theme: Garden Quotes
mijejo 12/29/2011, 3:10 pm
I thought it might be fun to start a thread on garden quotes. These can be thought-provoking, or just plain fun. Please give credit (when known).
As others have done with the games, I will compile them when enough accumulate, or when interest slows.
I plan to enscribe a few of these in stepping stones I will create for my own garden for this season. A half-dozen, or so, of such stones welcome one through the garden gate. As much as visitors enjoy their welcoming, I have found additional functions for them. They help weigh down any covers over the beds, they suffocate patches of weeds, they keep shoes clean because they rise above puddles (and mud), etc. I create these stones with quick-setting concrete, bits of tiles, glass, and other decorative items. I have a couple with hand and paw prints.
Anyway, here is a first quote to get us started:
As others have done with the games, I will compile them when enough accumulate, or when interest slows.
I plan to enscribe a few of these in stepping stones I will create for my own garden for this season. A half-dozen, or so, of such stones welcome one through the garden gate. As much as visitors enjoy their welcoming, I have found additional functions for them. They help weigh down any covers over the beds, they suffocate patches of weeds, they keep shoes clean because they rise above puddles (and mud), etc. I create these stones with quick-setting concrete, bits of tiles, glass, and other decorative items. I have a couple with hand and paw prints.
Anyway, here is a first quote to get us started:
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman military leader and author.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman military leader and author.
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
Guest 12/29/2011, 3:53 pm
Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots. ~Author Unknown
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
RoOsTeR 12/29/2011, 4:22 pm
"Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"-- Robin Williams
Great idea mijejo for a little theme play
Great idea mijejo for a little theme play
I am my gardens worst enemy.
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
llama momma 12/29/2011, 4:42 pm
Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.
by Terri Guillemets
by Terri Guillemets
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
walshevak 12/29/2011, 5:09 pm
Just check out my signature line. Don't know where I first heard it, but it stuck.
Kay
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A WEED IS A FLOWER GROWING IN THE WRONG PLACE
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
camprn 12/29/2011, 5:23 pm
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
plantoid 12/29/2011, 6:12 pm
If music be the food of life , you ain't planted enough .
David Gould a.k.a. Plantoid 29 dec 2011
David Gould a.k.a. Plantoid 29 dec 2011
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
sfg4uKim 12/29/2011, 6:47 pm
I'll just use my signature for my entry.
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January - Barbara Kingsolver - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
newstart 12/29/2011, 6:49 pm
In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn
Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees. ~Anne Raver
Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. ~Author Unknown
Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees. ~Anne Raver
Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. ~Author Unknown
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
mijejo 12/29/2011, 6:54 pm
Here are two more of my favorites:
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.
The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
sherryeo 12/29/2011, 7:13 pm
If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine,
plant a garden. quote by Robert Brault
plant a garden. quote by Robert Brault
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
WardinWake 12/29/2011, 8:14 pm
Howdy Folks:
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing: - 'Oh, how beautiful! 'and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out and start their working lives AT grubbing weeds from gravel-paths with broken dinner knives.
Rudyard Kipling, "The Glory of Gardens".
God Bless, Ward and Mary.
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing: - 'Oh, how beautiful! 'and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out and start their working lives AT grubbing weeds from gravel-paths with broken dinner knives.
Rudyard Kipling, "The Glory of Gardens".
God Bless, Ward and Mary.
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
sherryeo 12/29/2011, 8:33 pm
All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.
quote by Helen Hayes
quote by Helen Hayes
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
camprn 12/29/2011, 8:46 pm
I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. - by Sara Stein
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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
martha 12/29/2011, 10:22 pm
sfg4uKim wrote:I'll just use my signature for my entry.
And I love your signature.
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
Goosegirl 12/29/2011, 10:40 pm
Might I have a bit of earth?
The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
mijejo 12/29/2011, 11:16 pm
These are all great! Please continue.
A few more . . .
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~Hanna Rion
In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn
The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. ~Mrs. C.W. Earle
Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul. ~Linda Solegato
I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. ~Robert Brault
A few more . . .
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~Hanna Rion
In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn
The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. ~Mrs. C.W. Earle
Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul. ~Linda Solegato
I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. ~Robert Brault
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
sherryeo 12/29/2011, 11:22 pm
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
Alfred Austin
Alfred Austin
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
janezee 12/30/2011, 5:01 am
"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."
... Orson Scott Card
"A garden is never so good as it will be next year."
... Thomas Cooper
Sara Stein also said:
"A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay."
"We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs.
How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening.
It makes it so lifelike."
...Evelyn Underhill, Letters
"After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps."
...Miss Piggy
... Orson Scott Card
"A garden is never so good as it will be next year."
... Thomas Cooper
Sara Stein also said:
"A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay."
"We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs.
How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening.
It makes it so lifelike."
...Evelyn Underhill, Letters
"After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual "food" out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps."
...Miss Piggy
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
WardinWake 12/30/2011, 9:49 am
From my Signature:
Square Foot Gardening. Taking out what you don't like about gardening - leaving in what you do.
Ward.
Square Foot Gardening. Taking out what you don't like about gardening - leaving in what you do.
Ward.
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
Mamachibi 12/30/2011, 10:18 am
I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown. --Joel Salatin (From Food, Inc.)
If you want government food, go to the supermarket and buy government food. But for those who want to have a relationship with their food, and the accountability that inherently comes with voluntarily and informatively opting out of the supermarket to go ask around, smell around, sniff around, look around and opt out of the government food system, they ought to have that right. --Joel Salatin
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. --May Sarton
Hold my calls, I'm going to the garden. --Mamachibi
If you want government food, go to the supermarket and buy government food. But for those who want to have a relationship with their food, and the accountability that inherently comes with voluntarily and informatively opting out of the supermarket to go ask around, smell around, sniff around, look around and opt out of the government food system, they ought to have that right. --Joel Salatin
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. --May Sarton
Hold my calls, I'm going to the garden. --Mamachibi
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
sherryeo 12/30/2011, 12:32 pm
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson
I hope no one's posted that one. There are so many now, it's hard to check to see.
David Hobson
I hope no one's posted that one. There are so many now, it's hard to check to see.
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Re: New Theme: Garden Quotes
mijejo 12/30/2011, 1:14 pm
sheryeo, I think you are the first. However, it is okay if we get duplicates.
Just keep posting. They have all been great! Thanks to every one who has contributed.
I know there is one out there about how a garden teaches one patience. I do not remember the exact words. Let's hope someone knows it!
Just keep posting. They have all been great! Thanks to every one who has contributed.
I know there is one out there about how a garden teaches one patience. I do not remember the exact words. Let's hope someone knows it!
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