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~ I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. ~

Reginald Farrer

~ There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. ~

Mirabel Osler

~ The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them ~

Victoria Glendinning

~ In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~

Sam Llewelyn

~ The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~

Hanna Rion

~ In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful ~

Abram L. Urban

~ It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ~

James Douglas

~ I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. ~

Nathaniel Hawthorne

~ It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ~

Robert Louis Stevenson

~ Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden ~

Orson Scott Card

~ Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade. ~

Rudyard Kipling

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