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"I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!"
"The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own."
"When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?"
"That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover."
"While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning."
"Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to ascertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done."
"One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds."
"I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically."
"There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp."
"Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters."
"The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers."
"When a man plants a tree, he plants himself."
"The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light."
"The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies."
"Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden."
"There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights to enter an enchanted garden."
"O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die."
"I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy."
"I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden."
"It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their own hand at gardening and enjoy all the gifts of health, discovery, and connection a garden can bring."
