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Garden Gate:  Favorite Garden Quotes  |
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Patsy
True Blue Farmgirl
592 Posts
Illinois
USA
592 Posts |
 Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 10:34:30 AM
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
Henry David Thoreau
May God bless those who love the soil,
Patsy
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Patsy
True Blue Farmgirl
592 Posts
Illinois
USA
592 Posts |
Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 10:43:40 AM
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I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest, a continued one thro' the year. Under a total want of demand except for our family table. I am still devoted to the garden. But tho' an old man, I am but a young gardener.
Thomas Jefferson
May God bless those who love the soil,
Patsy
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Woodswoman
True Blue Farmgirl
512 Posts
Jennifer
Altamont
NY
USA
512 Posts |
Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 6:07:58 PM
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"The Earth laughs in flowers"
Ralph Waldo Emmerson |
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
2044 Posts |
Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 7:18:37 PM
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"Bloom where you are planted" ( I don't know who...)
with a happy heart |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 8:19:03 PM
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"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
Margaret Atwood
Just think of all of the roads there are...all of the things I haven't seen....yet. |
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ByHzGrace
True Blue Farmgirl
348 Posts
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Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 9:57:22 PM
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my granny says you'll eat a peck of dirt before you die maybe that is why Pop-POP said don't pick mushrooms in the dark |
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La Patite Ferme
True Blue Farmgirl
623 Posts
Jenn
CA
USA
623 Posts |
Posted - Mar 11 2007 : 11:15:43 PM
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"Though an old man, I am but a young gardener"
--Thomas Jefferson |
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Nance in France
True Blue Farmgirl
1438 Posts
Nancy
St. Laurent de la Salanque
France
1438 Posts |
Posted - Mar 12 2007 : 10:33:12 AM
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| Minnie Aumonier said .... When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden" ........ amen, sister! |
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JudyBlueEyes
True Blue Farmgirl
657 Posts
Judith
Spokane
Washington
USA
657 Posts |
Posted - Mar 12 2007 : 5:30:02 PM
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"We come from the earth, we go to the earth, and in between, we garden." (I don't know who...)
The Rooster crows, but the Hen lays the egg. ~ Texas Proverb |
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simpler1773
True Blue Farmgirl
234 Posts
Ricki
Ashland
Wisconsin
USA
234 Posts |
Posted - Mar 12 2007 : 6:33:58 PM
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You can bury alot of troubles digging in the dirt!
~Ricki~
You can't pour anything out of an empty vessel, take care of yourself! |
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts |
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westernhorse51
True Blue Farmgirl
1681 Posts
michele
farmingdale
n.j.
USA
1681 Posts |
Posted - Mar 13 2007 : 11:36:48 AM
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my favorite is by Proust "let us be grateful to the people who make us happy;they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom".
she selects wool and flax and works with eager hands Prov.31:13 |
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
2421 Posts |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Mar 17 2007 : 8:49:19 PM
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Take thy plastic spade,
It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,
They are thy colours.
~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Mar 17 2007 : 8:51:26 PM
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I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. ~F. Frankfort Moore, A Garden of Peace
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Mar 17 2007 : 9:24:00 PM
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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.~Helen Hayes
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.~Julie Moir Messervy
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.~May Sarton
Gardening is a kind of self-prescribed preventative medicine, good for all ills.
Sheryl London
Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses.
It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.
Ruth Stout
Flowers are our greatest silent friends.
Jim G. Brown
An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.
Richard Briers
The more one gardens, the more one learns; and the more one learns,
the more one realizes how little one knows. I suppose the whole of life is like that.
V. Sackville-West
Who has learned to garden who did not at the same time learn to be patient?
H. L. V. Fletcher
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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akcowgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
296 Posts
Valerie
Homer
Alaska
USA
296 Posts |
Posted - Mar 17 2007 : 10:02:51 PM
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Every child is born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature,
open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the flowers,
and the mystery of life.
- R. Search
"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." --Sara Stein, “My Weeds: A Gardener's Botany” University Press of Florida, 2000
"A flower is an educated weed."...Luther Burbank
"More grows in the garden than the gardener sows."...Old Spanish Proverb
"To see a world
in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wildflower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour."...William Blake
Valerie
Yes, I live in my own little world. But that's ok they know me here.
Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts |
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
2045 Posts |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Mar 18 2007 : 08:57:44 AM
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lots of lovely garden quotes..I forgot about that one by William Blake.."To see the world in a grain of sand..."
I saw the saying one time painted onto a wooden chest that had been painted with a beach scene..it was lovely..and I thought..what a very beautiful bit of poetry.
I think all of these saying would be fun to paint around terra cotta pots or even paint around a photo frame that holds a picture of a garden flower...or if the saying is short and you love it..even stencilled to a wall.
~Seize the Day! Live, Love, Laugh~ |
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
2044 Posts |
Posted - Mar 18 2007 : 9:32:25 PM
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From James Michener's Chesapeake..." Those who plant trees are entitled to believe they will live forever..."
with a happy heart |
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