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“At Bramasole, the first secret spot that draws me outside is a stump and board bench on a high terrace overlooking the lake and valley. Before I sit down, I must bang the board against a tree to kn...”
“When I die, bury me with a few garden tools, I shall make a garden in the heaven too.”
“Here, in the garden at night, it is another world, strange and yet friendly and familiar, never frightening. There is such quietness, such sweetness, such refreshment. Close your eyes. Breathe in a...”
“At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.”
“Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.”
“The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every ...”
“My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.”
“I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.”
“I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.”
“To dwell is to garden.”
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
“Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?”
“I do the gardening.”
“Summer was a lady who didn't give up her spotlight easily.”
“She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.”
“That's my little piece of heaven. Go ahead."Ciro followed Remo through the open door to a small enclosed garden. Terra-cotta pots positioned along the top of the stone wall spilled over with red ge...”
“For you little gardener and lover of trees, I have only a small gift. Here is set G for Galadriel, but it may stand for garden in your tongue. In this box there is earth from my orchard, and such b...”
“There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”
“I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though...”
“A garden is made of hope.”
