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[Quote No.154] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderfull works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall." - Thomas Henry Huxley
[1825-1895] English doctor/surgeon and writer
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[Quote No.230] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"Once there was a teacher who spoke lovingly of his garden. His students imagined it was large and filled with beautiful and exotic flowers. One day they went to his home. His garden was tiny and shut in by high walls. One of the students said disappointedly,'Your garden is very narrow!' 'Yes' smiled the wise teacher as his eyes surveyed the sky, 'but see how high it is!'" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.231] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"God Almighty first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures." - Sir Francis Bacon
[1561-1626] English statesman, esayist and philosopher , in 'Essays: Of Gardens'
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[Quote No.232] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all." - Whittier
, in 'A Song of Harvest'
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[Quote No.233] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"[Poem:]
I think that I shall never see,
A poem lovely as a tree.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
" - Joyce Kilmer
[1886-1918] American poet, in 'Trees'.
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[Quote No.234] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"Talk of temples, there is one Built without hands, to mankind given; Its lamps are the meridian sun And all the stars of heaven, Its walls are the cerulean sky, Its floor the earth so green and fair, The dome its vast immensity, All Nature worships there." - David Vedder
, in 'The Temple of Nature'
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[Quote No.235] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"[Poem about night and the moon:]
The moon, like a flower,
In heaven's high bower
With silent delight
Sits and smiles on the night.
" - William Blake
[1757-1827] English poet, painter and engraver , in 'Night'
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[Quote No.236] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"[Poem:]
Happy the man - whose wish and care,
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air,
In his own ground.
" - Alexander Pope
[1688-1744] English poet , in 'Ode on Solitude'
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[Quote No.237] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream." - William Wordsworth
[1770-1850], English poet , in 'Intimations of Immortality'
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[Quote No.238] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth." - John Milton
[1608-1674] English poet, in 'Tractate of Education'
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[Quote No.239] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams." - Percy Bysshe Shelley
[1792-1827] English poet , in 'The Cloud'
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[Quote No.241] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"The sky, is that beautiful old parchment, in which the sun and moon, keep their diary." - Alfred Kreymborg
, in 'Old Manuscript'
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[Quote No.243] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore; There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews." - Lord Byron
[1788-1824] English poet , in 'Childe Harold, IV'
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[Quote No.244] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears: their earth is but an echo of the spheres." - Lord Byron
[1788-1824] English poet , in 'Don Juan, XV'
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[Quote No.245] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky, And at every drifting cloud that went With sails of silver by." - Oscar Wilde
[1854-1900] Anglo-English playwright, poet, novelist and short story writer , in 'Ballad of Reading
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[Quote No.246] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"Of all employments from which gain is derived, there is none that surpasses agriculture, none more productive, none more delightful, none more worthy of a man of liberal education." - Cicero
[106-43 B.C.] Roman orator, statesman, and philosopher, born in Arpinum, Latium , in 'De officiis'
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[Quote No.247] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"[Poem: 'A Day of Summer' ]
I hear the wind among the trees,
Playing celestial symphonies;
I see the branches downward bent,
Like keys of some great instrument.
" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
[1807-1882] American poet, linguist and educator. Verse from his poem 'A Day of Summer'.
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[Quote No.252] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"God made the country and man made the town." - 17th century proverb
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[Quote No.261] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"A townsperson can search his whole life for what a bushman has at his campfire." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.268] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art." - Walter Savage Landor
[1775-1864]
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[Quote No.269] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge or a vigor of spring as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artifact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...Each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday." - Bernard Berenson
[1865-1959], American art critic and writer
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[Quote No.281] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"In my garden I spend many pleasant hours watching the birds and admiring the flowers." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.282] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"If you want to be happy grow a garden." - Chinese proverb
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[Quote No.393] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character; and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. " - John Stuart Mill
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[Quote No.429] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. " - Sir John Lubbock
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[Quote No.503] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life. " - Theodore Roosevelt
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[Quote No.504] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"[People] Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation… " - Henry David Thoreau
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[Quote No.511] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"The heart of a man away from nature will quickly harden." - America Native wisdom
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[Quote No.863] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, cheerful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
" - William Bartram
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[Quote No.968] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"A clear night sky and a little instruction allows anyone to soar in mind and imagination to the farthest reaches of an enormous universe in which we are but a speck. And there is nothing more exhilarating and humbling than that.
" - Brian Greene
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[Quote No.1212] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
" - Orison Swett Marden
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[Quote No.1685] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination. " - Thomas Church
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[Quote No.1927] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs." - Joseph Addison
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[Quote No.1928] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
" - Dr Liberty Hyde Bailey
President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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[Quote No.1931] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
" - Alfred Austin
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[Quote No.1932] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
" - Alfred Austin
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[Quote No.1933] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters." - May Sarton
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[Quote No.1934] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids." - Beau Bridges
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[Quote No.1936] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"If a person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
" - Dr Liberty Hyde Bailey
President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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[Quote No.1939] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.
" - Dr Liberty Hyde Bailey
President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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[Quote No.1940] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"If today you care only for pinks and roses and other prim garden flowers, next year you will also admire the wild convolvulus on the old fence and the winter stalks of the sunflower. There are times and seasons for all plants. One's sympathies are wide, as one's life is full and resourceful.
" - Dr Liberty Hyde Bailey
President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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[Quote No.1943] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
" - Dr Liberty Hyde Bailey
President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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[Quote No.1944] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.
" - Dr Liberty Hyde Bailey
President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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[Quote No.1946] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"The sense of conquest is in it. Not often is a collector able to obtain complete material in one assault. The plant may be at the moment sterile, or only in fruit or flower... but this lack has the advantage of stimulating the collector to go back in another season or year to complete the work.
" - Dr Liberty Hyde Bailey
President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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[Quote No.1951] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
" - Roberto Burle Marx
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[Quote No.1953] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
" - Gertrude Jekyll
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[Quote No.1954] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"It is extremely interesting to work out gardens in which some special colouring predominates, and to those who, by natural endowment or careful eye-cultivation, possess or have acquired what artists understand by an eye for colour, it opens a whole new range of garden delights.
" - Gertrude Jekyll
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[Quote No.1956] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"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 Jekyll
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[Quote No.1957] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
" - Gertrude Jekyll
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[Quote No.1958] Need Area: Property > Garden/Nature
"There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
" - Gertrude Jekyll
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