"Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept."
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"A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so."
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"Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle."
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"Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild."
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"God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!"
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"I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not criticized for routinely giving their (live)stock nutritional supplements....superior to any sold for humans...Millions of families could plant home gardens if they truly wanted health. Refined food are practically unknown in Russia. The life expectancy of the 40-year-old American is near the lowest in the world."
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"Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden."
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"Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven; a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul."
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"God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart."
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"Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines."
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"All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so."
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"It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden."
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"Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race."
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"Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God."
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"We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm us. We do it with colors, with a garden, with the furnishings of a room, or with sounds and words. We make a little form, and we gain composure."
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"When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world, God hath ever broke down the wall itself, removed the Candlestick, etc., and made His Garden a wilderness as it is this day. And that therefore if He will ever please to restore His garden and Paradise again, it must of necessity be walled in peculiarly unto Himself from the world, and all that be saved out of the world are to be transplanted out of the wilderness of the World."
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"Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch."
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"We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value."
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"Hope is not just one single quality or promise. Hope has to do with believing beyond today— knowing there’s a garden of beauty that awaits me."
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"There is a great power within that when used in beauty and immaculate purity can cure and heal and cause miracles. When you use it it spreads like a magic garden and when you do not use it it recedes from you."
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