#gardening

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

— Luther Burbank

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He plants trees to benefit another generation. ↗

— Caecilius Statius

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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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All gardening is landscape painting. ↗

— William Kent

#landscape #painting

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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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

#back #circles #down #everything #forces

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. ↗

— Phyllis Theroux

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One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? ↗

— Francis Cabot Lowell

#accomplish #beginning #enough #far #garden

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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