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"Today the art of gardening is practiced much more often that any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an art at all." - M G Rensselaer

"A society grows great when old people plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." - Greek proverb

"The largest living thing on earth: a tree. The oldest living thing: a tree. The symbol of live, of family branchings, a graph of weather and time, a sentinel to history,. Source of food, fighter against wind and water erosion and pollution, the substance of building, the pages upon which we print and scribble."

"Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for public good."  - Sara Ebenreck

"If a tree is treated as a living organism with an understanding of its vital functions, it will be a constant source of profit and pleasure." - NT Mirov

"The person who plants and garden feels that they have done something for the food of the world." - Vita Sackville West

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." - Mahatma Ghandi

"A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace to the soul." - Sadi

"Always remember the beauty of the garden, for there is peace." - Anonymous

"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses." -  Hanna Rion

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." - Aristotle

"I perhaps owe become a painter to flowers." - Claude Monet

"I have never had so many good ideas day after day when I worked in the garden." - John Erskine

"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust." - Gertrude Jekyll

"The lesson I have thoroughly learnt that I wish to pass on to others, it to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives." - Gertrude Jekyll

"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies." - Gertrude Jekyll

"There is no spot of ground, however bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give the impression of beauty and delight." - Gertrude Jekyll

"Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart." - Russell Page

"When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed,  I feel such as exhilaration and health that I discover I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match that of the universe, to match your nature with Nature." - Joseph Campbell

"An early morning walk in nature is a blessing for the whole day." - Henry David Thoreau

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