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What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.
The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is.
Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.
Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.
The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.
Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.
In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.
I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.
How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.
What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
They said Babe Ruth built Yankee Stadium and Bruno Sammartino built the Garden. It always was my favorite place.
No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.
Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul.
People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do?
I grew up in Sedgefield, which is in the heart of the area along the Garden Route that has been ravaged by fire.
My second pro fight was at Madison Square Garden, on the undercard of Naseem Hamed's fight against Kevin Kelley.
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
Beauty is what I feel my life is about - the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn't.
A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.
Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.
Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.
I can easily teach people to be gardeners, and from them, once they know how to garden, you'll get a philosopher.
I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.
I can spend two hours grubbing about in my garden, dazed with pleasure and intent, and it feels like five minutes.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.
Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.
I love playing in the Garden. My dad used to tell me stories about playing here. So to see that crowd, it's crazy.
To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.
If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.
I get around nature. I have a vegetable garden, and I enjoy being outside. I do work quite a bit around the house.
This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.
I also had a hosting position on a home and garden television show - which is a joke if you ever see my apartment.
The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.
One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.
Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
It's not just about facts, information and technical know how... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition.
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.
I like to see and understand a space, to hear everyone's point of view in order to respond to many different needs.
I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.
Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.
Good bones are important, so it is wise to go slowly and get your plan right before launching into a vital project.