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All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
- Joseph Joubert
Each time these blossoms open I recall the friend who gave me the saplings, And the times we used to stop to drink beneath his trees; But those springs of twenty years ago are like a dream, And the wine cups of those days are tea-bowls now.
- Kisei Reigen
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
- Bill Vaughan
Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.
- Lou Erickson
What this country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
- Will Rogers
Any garden demands as much of its maker as he has to give. But I do not need to tell you, if you are a gardener, that no other undertaking will give as great a return for the amount of effort put into it.
- Elizabeth Lawrence
The less help you have in a garden the more yours it is.
- Nikki
Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
- Henry James
When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle
I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I work in the garden.
- John Erskine
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.
- Esther Meynell
He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.
- Celia Thaxter
I don't know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice.
- Roland A Beowne
A flower is an educated weed.
- Luther Burbank
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.
- Lewis Gannit
Give a weed an inch and it will take a yard.
- Author Unknown
The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
- Vita Sackville-West, 1892 - 1962
Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years.
- Author Unknown