#gardens

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul. ↗

— Thomas More

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The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

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The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter. ↗

— Bill Mollison

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A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

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There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

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In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

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I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens. ↗

— Elton John

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