Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Garden Quotes, Lakes Quotes

My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!

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The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.

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He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

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The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

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The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

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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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Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

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

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Rain 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

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

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Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

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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

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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To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Life Quotes , Garden Quotes

Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity .

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Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Garden Quotes , Soul Quotes

The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?

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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

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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Vinnie rocks her Garden and moans that God won't help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked every day.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Garden Quotes , Rocks Quotes