Garden Quotes
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Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter.
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My heart is a garden tired with autumn.
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No one since the Garden of Eden - which the serpent forsook in order to run for higher office - has imputed to politicians great purity of motive.
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If you are a garden plant you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden.
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God's church is not a stage for us to perform on but a garden for us to grow in.
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I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.
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I dug myself a garden, and a stray cat I grew to like would come around to sulk in the corn. I forced myself to seek new love, and for a while, I thought I'd found it with a girl from my office. She was molten in my bed, but she also suffered depressions that were very dear to her. She would often call just to sigh at me for two hours on the phone, wanting me to applaud her depth of feeling. I cut if off, then missed her, wishing that I'd at least had the sense to take her naked photograph.
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I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do lots of stuff. I read and write and hang out with people. I go see movies.
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As for the meaning of gardens, particular gardens may have, of course, all sorts of different meanings - emotive, historical, emblematic, religious, commemorative, and so on. But I think that good gardens all signify or exemplify an important truth about the relationship of culture and nature - their inseparability.
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As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise.
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Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.
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Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body.
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I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?
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I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.
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A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
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Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.
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Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe.
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In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be.
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I need my friends, I need my house, I need my garden.
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To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.
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A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.
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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
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I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.
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Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.
