Garden Quotes

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Novelist

“I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!”

Giving Up Garden Whales

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Leonardo da Vinci

Artist, Scientist, Inventor

“The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.”

Men Flower Garden

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John Lennon

Musician, Activist

“I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.”

Inspirational Motivational

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John Steinbeck

Novelist, Journalist

“There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.”

Nature Earth

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John Burroughs

Naturalist, Writer

“One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.”

Garden Weed Plant

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Joseph Conrad

Novelist, Short Story Writer

“Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.”

Flower Expression

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John Muir

Naturalist, Writer

“When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.”

Men Tree

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?”

Nature Garden Woods

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Freeman Dyson

Theoretical Physicist

“That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.”

People Garden Ramanujan

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Lewis Mumford

Philosopher, Author

“While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.”

Expression Garden Good Life

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Jane Austen

Novelist

“Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to ascertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done.”

Thinking Flower Garden

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Juan Williams

Journalist

“The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers.”

Father Party Garden

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