Garden Quotes — Page 29

Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.”

Writing Nature Garden

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Tracy K. Smith

Poet, Professor

“When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.”

Kids Father Garden

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Thomas Walker Arnold

Scholar

“Flowers are my music.”

Flower Garden

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Robert Frost

Poet

“The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.”

Evil Garden

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Sri Aurobindo

Philosopher, Poet, Politician

“Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity .”

Soul Humanity Garden

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Robert Hughes

Art Critic, Author

“An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.”

Past Garden Museums

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Stephen King

Author

“The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.”

Writing Self Garden

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Russell Page

Artist, Painter

“There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. . . . Japanese artists working with a few stones and sand four hundred years ago achieved strangely lasting compositions. However there, too, but for the hands that have piously raked the white sand into patterns and controlled the spread of moss and lichens, little would remain.”

Artist Garden Skeletons

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Russell Page

Artist, Painter

“My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.”

Water Rocks Garden

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Rumi

Poet, Philosopher

“Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?”

Water Garden Rose

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Rumi

Poet, Philosopher

“My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.”

Heart Garden Delight

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Rumi

Poet, Philosopher

“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. RUMI, attributed, Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

Needs Garden Grieving

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