Gardening proverbs

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◆ You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.
- Bootsy Collins98
◆ How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
- Alexander Smith98
◆ Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.
- Peter Zumthor98
◆ 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 Sarton98
◆ There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.
- Peter Mayle98
◆ God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
- Francis Bacon98
◆ The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
- Gertrude Jekyll98
◆ We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
- Voltaire98
◆ 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 Trueblood98
◆ Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
- May Sarton98
◆ I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
- Barbra Streisand98
◆ Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan98
◆ It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
- James Douglas98
◆ The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
- Stephen Gardiner98
◆ I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
- Alice Sebold98

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