#garden

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot. ↗

— Judah Philip Benjamin

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I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories. ↗

— Eric Brown

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

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He plants trees to benefit another generation. ↗

— Caecilius Statius

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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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I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

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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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Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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