Alice Walker Quotes, Mother Quotes, Garden Quotes

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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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

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Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

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I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

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The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.

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It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

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

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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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To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

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This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden

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All nature seems at work.

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The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end

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Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

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Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

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You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?

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And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

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The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

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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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