Quote by Alfred Austin
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sendi

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. – Alfred Austin

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Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. – Alfred Austin

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Gardens are a form of autobiography. – Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1993

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Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are all forms of the soil. But that part of this mineral that is on top, like it is the skin of the earth, that is the most precious of the commons. – Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), Dirt! The Movie, 2009

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Laying out grounds… may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting…. it is to assist Nature in moving the affections… the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature… – William Wordsworth, letter to George Beaumont, 1805 October 17th [Author trivia:

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory. – Chinese Proverb

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