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“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
“How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.”
Alexander Smith
“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”
Walt Whitman
“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
“Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.”
Anne Raver
“The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour”
Oscar Wilde
“A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.”
Gertrude Stein
“Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard onAnd no one will pardon the snakeLook who invents him and later torments himThen makes us repent our mistakes”
Christine Anderson
“There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.”
D.H. Lawrence
“A book is a garden carried in the pocket”
Arabian Proverb
