Top 58 Best Garden Quotes

#1. The very best garden is a new one, on virgin ground. Plants leap out of that spot.

Janet Macunovich

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#2. Having lasted for 4,000 years, the use of nature's materials to express ideas about nature may be expected to continue. The best garden designs are produced with an awareness of the art, science, history, geography, philosophy, social habits and construction techniques of their period.

Tom Turner

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#3. The market is the best garden.

George Herbert

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#4. I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.

Sadie Jones

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#5. Cats were not and are not tool makers the way humans became toolmakers. They are specifically adapted as obligate carnivores, This means the vegetarian cat is an oxymoron at best and a blatant lie at worst. Cats need meat. The concept of a Garden of Eden would be rather atrocious to them.

Leviak B. Kelly

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#6. The best ideas are those that really affect me emotionally - those are the ones you never forget. You think to yourself, 'I want to write that book', for years; those are the ideas that I love to work with, and 'The Bone Garden' was one of them.

Tess Gerritsen

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#7. It's best to let her go, he says.
No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.

Lauren DeStefano

Best Garden Quotes #1134018
#8. I found out and lost the only place I ever sort of regarded as home. Oh well. Best to stay in one's garden but Voltaire was a boring writer and sex is one of the greatest things there is.

Kathy Acker

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#9. I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.

Henry Bellamann

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#10. I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of art such as Garden State go untouched is beyond me. It just proves how close-minded America really is, and I refuse to take part in it.

Zach Braff

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#11. Look, Samuel, I mean to make a garden of my land. Remember my name is Adam. So far I've had no Eden, let alone been driven out." "It's the best reason I ever heard for making a garden," Samuel exclaimed. He chuckled.

John Steinbeck

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#12. The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

George Bernard Shaw

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#14. Gardening is the best therapy in the world.

C. Z. Guest

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#15. The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.

Texas Bix Bender

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#16. Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.

Dave Barry

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#17. The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.

Wendell Berry

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#18. The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.

Ruth Asawa

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#19. And from that day to this, no power on earth can keep a rabbit out of a vegetable garden, for El-ahrairah prompts them with a thousand tricks, the best in the world.

Richard Adams

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#20. Greatness is finding your natural talent, fueling it with passion, planting it in well-nourished soil, and toiling in the garden until it breaks through the earth and reaches for the stars.

Janet Autherine

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#21. Larry Geller's Leaves of Elvis' Garden is by far the best book I have ever read about Elvis. It is emotional, revealing and spiritual, and offers the most amazing insight into the king. I highly recommend this dynamic book.

Uri Geller

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#22. NO PROCESSED FOODS! Natural is best. Straight from the garden. Avoid the tins.

Natalie Cook

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#23. When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

Livy

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#24. If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.

Malcolm Wallop

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#25. Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.

Helen Prejean

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#26. In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

Sol Stein

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#27. I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.

John Starks

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#28. We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.

Gwyneth Paltrow

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#29. As leaders we do not create growth. The best we can do is create an environment that is conducive to growth. It is like planting a garden. You do not cause the seeds to grow. To grow is their natural purpose in life.

James Hunter

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#30. May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin.

H. Peter Loewer

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#31. For as long as there are men and women, some things in life will best be done arm in arm, and strolling in a flower garden is one.

Ivan Doig

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#32. Leave Ueno Station through the park entrance, go past the concert hall and museums, skirt around the fountain, and you come to a sort of tree garden. Homeless people live here, in tents made of sky-blue plastic sheeting and wooden poles. The best tents even have doors.

David Mitchell

Best Garden Quotes #6149
#33. Spring time is nature at its best.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Best Garden Quotes #11357
#34. Science chases money
and money chases its tail
and the best minds of my generation can't make bail.
But the bacteria are coming
that's my prediction.
It's the answer to this culture
of the quick-fix prescription.

Ani DiFranco

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#35. To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.

Prince Charles

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#36. If only we wait on God's timings, we shall eat of the best fruits from the tree of life in the garden of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#37. Adam searched out old friends from the neighborhood. They drank beer together in the garden of the Stag & Hounds, trading stories and trying their best to ignore the inescapable truth - that the ties that once bound them were loosening by the year and might soon be gone altogether.

Mark Mills

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#38. Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.

Tom Turner

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#39. A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. So, keep love in your heart if not your best friend today will turn to your worst enemy tomorrow.

Osunsakin Adewale

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#40. We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
We'll do the best we know.
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow.
And make our garden grow!

Leonard Bernstein

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#41. The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Best Garden Quotes #298727
#42. When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears
I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

Irving Stone

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#43. The best crop of a garden, year after year, is hope.

Robert Rodale

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#44. In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens.

Costa Georgiadis

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#45. I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle.

Davy Crockett

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#46. British garden history is best understood as a small incident in the histories of ideas, design and technology.

Tom Turner

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#47. A garden is the best alternative therapy.

Germaine Greer

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#48. People yearn to be in one of the best
a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club
any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.

E. O. Wilson

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#49. When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.

Frank Arthur Swinnerton

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#50. Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child.

Lois Lowry

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#51. The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.

John Muir

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#52. It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

Jewel

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#53. There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.

Karel Capek

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#54. Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was to have one yourself. A moment's rational thought here will spot the slight flaw in this reasoning.

Terry Pratchett

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#55. Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at.

John Evelyn

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#56. I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.

Ernst Junger

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#57. Grandma Harken was sharpening her garden shears. Her hands slowed on the file and she said finally, "He'll get in trouble and he'll figure it out. Best to do it without us standing over him. It's the only way anybody ever learns to clean up after themselves.

Ursula Vernon

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#58. The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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