Quote by Thomas Moore
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep t

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. – Thomas Moore

Other quotes by Thomas Moore

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touchd by the thorns. – Thomas Moore

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Nature
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The bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,
Neer stoops to earth her wing, nor flies
Where idle warblers roam;
But high she shoots through air and light,
Above all low delay,
Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,
Nor shadow dims her way. – Thomas Moore

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He plants trees to benefit another generation. – Caecilius Statius

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. – Andrew Weil

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One lifetime is never enough to accomplish ones horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? – Francis Cabot Lowell

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