S.J. Perelman
Acres and Pains 1951"
entryContent[1] = " \"Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts\"
Anonymous" entryContent[2] = " \"Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.\"
Henry Mitchell
The Essential Earthman"
entryContent[3] = " \"There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners\"
William Shakespeare
Hamlet 1601"
entryContent[4] = " \"There are several ways to lay out a garden; the best way is to get a gardener\"
Karel Capek
Gardener's Year 1931"
entryContent[5] = " \"Men are like plants - they never grow happily unless they are well cultivated\"
Charles-Louis de Scondat Montesquieu
Lettres Persains 1721"
entryContent[6] = " \"If one were as good a gardener in practice as one is in theory, what a garden would one create!\"
V. Sackville-West
Some Flowers 1937"
entryContent[7] = " \"We must cultivate our garden\"
Voltaire
Candide 1758"
entryContent[8] = " \"To make a great garden, one must have a great idea or a great opportunity\"
Sir George Sitwell
Essay on the Making of Gardens 1909"
entryContent[9] = " \"If a young man with an elementary knowledge of gardening can be found, who wants to learn, is strong, willing and intelligent, it is better to supply most of the brains yourself\"
Helena Rutherford Ely
A Woman's Hardy Garden"
entryContent[10] = " \"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity\"
John Ruskin
1819-1900"
entryContent[11] = " \"Nobody is fond of fading flowers\"
Thomas Fuller
Gnomologia 1732"
entryContent[12] = " \"A house built and a garden to grow never brought what they cost\"
Anonymous
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entryContent[13] = " \"There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals\"
John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice 1851"
entryContent[14] = " \"A house though otherwise beautifull, yet it hath no Garden belonging to it, is more like a Prison than a House\"
William Coles
The Art of Simpling 1656"
entryContent[15] = " \"Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall\"
Robert Frost
1874-1963"
entryContent[16] = " \"To lock horns with nature, the only equipment you really need is the constitution of Paul Bunyan and the basic training of a commando\"
S.J. Perelman
Acres and Pains 1951"
entryContent[17] = " \"Gardening, reading about gardening, and writing about gardening are all one; no one can garden alone\"
Elizabeth Lawrence
The Little Bulbs 1957"
entryContent[18] = " \"Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge\"
George Herbert
Outlandish Proverbs, 1640"
entryContent[19] = " \"Good gardening and a quiet life seldom go hand in hand\"
Christopher Lloyd
In My Garden 1993"
entryContent[20] = " \"A garden should always look bigger than it really is\"
Alexandre Le Blond
The Theory and Practice of Gardening 1712"
entryContent[21] = " \"Gardening gives ones back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself\"
May Sarton
Plant Dreaming Deep 1968"
entryContent[22] = " \"The rules of the garden are the rules of art; the rules of the rock garden are the more awful rules of Nature herself\"
Reginald Farrer
My Rock Garden 1920"
entryContent[23] = " \"Gardens were before gardeners, and but some hours after the earth\"
Sir Thomas Browne
The Garden of Cyrus 1658"
entryContent[24] = " \"The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there\"
George Bernard Shaw
The adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God 1932"
entryContent[25] = " \"Gardens are a form of autobiography\"
Sydney Eddison
Horticulture Magazine 1993"
entryContent[26] = " \"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it\"
Charles Dudley Warner
My Summer in a Garden"
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