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A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

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Benjamin FranklinFart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitud...

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I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things,...

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Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through...

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Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, st...

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There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac...

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And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me fe...

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There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden...

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Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a...

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebod...

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The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happines...

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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows ...

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Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, ...

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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd lo...

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For you little gardener and lover of trees, I have only a small gift. Here is set G for Galadriel, b...

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I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I...

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The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his res...

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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

We, the garden of technology. We, undecidable.

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John CageI-VI: Methodstructureintentiondisciplinenotationindeterminacy Interpenetrationimitationdevotioncircumstancesvariablestruct Nonunderstandingcontingencyinconsistencyperformance

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fru...

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I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and fami...

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always a...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.

The Sunlight on the GardenThe sunlight on the gardenHardens and grows cold,We cannot cage the minute...

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Fanfare for the MakersA cloud of witnesses. To whom? To what?To the small fire that never leaves the...

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Louis MacNeiceCollected Poems of Louis MacNeice

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to ven...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon.

There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwar...

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If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that ...

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I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Gard...

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I know a beautiful garden, where there are a great many children in fine little coats, and they go u...

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How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good ...

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Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and surv...

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Michael PollanSecond Nature: A Gardener's Education

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to count...

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Michael PollanSecond Nature: A Gardener's Education

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reve...

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Michael PollanSecond Nature: A Gardener's Education

In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our m...

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Michael PollanSecond Nature: A Gardener's Education

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature ...

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Michael PollanThe Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar ...

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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, ...

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I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a gar...

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She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the fi...

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My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it ...

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Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove t...

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I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves...

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A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else....

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Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to expe...

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The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call the...

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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that ...

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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he...

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A poor old Widow in her weedsSowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;Not too shallow, and not too de...

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The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the r...

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But the seawhich no one tendsis also a garden

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William Carlos WilliamsPictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

The garden is a miraculous place, and anything can happen on a beautiful moonlit night.

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William JoyceThe Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made ...

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Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot...

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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

A black cat among roses,phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,the sweet smells of heliotrope and ...

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