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Nature Quotes

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To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

- James Russell Lowell

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A flower is an educated weed.

- Luther Burbank

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Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,
I keep it staying at Home -
With a bobolink for a Chorister,
And an Orchard, for a Dome.

- Emily Dickinson

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On every stem, on every leaf ... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that 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

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Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.

- John Steinbeck

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One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.

- Wendell Berry

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The sun, with all those plants revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

- Galileo Galilei

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I was determined to know beans. Walden

- Henry David Thoreau

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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

- Walt Whitman

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To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
An eternity in an hour.

- William Blake

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