Francis Bacon Quotes, Nature Quotes, Garden Quotes

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

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As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Men Quotes , Garden Quotes

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

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Tags : Alan Chadwick Quotes , Garden Quotes , Giving Quotes

Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Garden Quotes , Spinning Quotes

She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Garden Quotes , Islands Quotes

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

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I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Spring Quotes , Garden Quotes

I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Garden Quotes , Giving Quotes

What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

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I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

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Tags : Al Jarreau Quotes , Garden Quotes , Years Quotes

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Garden Quotes , Dancing Quotes

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Garden Quotes , Land Quotes

The first one that I went to with my friends was with my buddy Michael - and we actually cut class to get tickets - was INXS at the Garden.

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Tags : Adam Richman Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Garden Quotes

The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Life Quotes , Garden Quotes

All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Garden Quotes , Feet Quotes

The fool who loves giving advice on our garden never tends his own plants

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Garden Quotes

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

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Tags : Alan Chadwick Quotes , Garden Quotes

Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Garden Quotes , Two Quotes

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.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Summer Quotes , Garden Quotes