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He plants trees to benefit another generation.

-Caecilius Statius

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

-George Bernard Shaw

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Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

-Luther Burbank

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We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

-Voltaire

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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

-Walt Disney

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

-Robert Louis Stevenson

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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

-Liberty Hyde Bailey

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A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

-Doug Larson

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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

-Orison Swett Marden

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

-Les Brown

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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

-Alice Walker

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A good garden may have some weeds.

-Thomas Fuller

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

-George Eliot

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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

-Rudyard Kipling

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

-Francis Bacon

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A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.

-Gertrude Jekyll

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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

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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

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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

-D. Elton Trueblood

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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

-William Cowper

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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

-Oscar de la Renta

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Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

-Alfred Austin

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My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

-Eric Morecambe

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A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

-Roberto Burle Marx

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The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

-Gertrude Jekyll

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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

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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

-Zora Neale Hurston

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