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Horticulturist Inspirational Quotes (626)

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Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature
George Harrison
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A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
Russell Page
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
Vita Sackville-West
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The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.
Henry A. Wallace
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Most of the world is fooling about, especially the people who think they control the world and the community. The presidents, the politicians, the military, etc., are all jerking about, acting as if they are Lord over their own domains. That's basically Problem One on the planet.
George Harrison
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To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
Harold Nicolson
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a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.
Vita Sackville-West
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
William Shenstone
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A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
William Shenstone
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No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.
George Harrison
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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I didn't notice him coming, but he didn't seem to be looking for an autograph signature
George Harrison
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You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?
Alan Titchmarsh
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Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing, I still don't know the title of it, but it is got the most amazing lyrics and it's a quite a good production. And quite a good tun
George Harrison
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More than half a century has passed, and yet each spring, when I wander into the primrose wood, I see the pale yellow blooms and smell their sweetest scent - for a moment I am seven years old again and wandering in that fragrant wood.
Gertrude Jekyll
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I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I'm a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day.
Alan Titchmarsh
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Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.
Ruth Stout
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Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is we must draw our inspiration from the future.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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A fool and his words are soon parted.
William Shenstone
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A lot of people went underground with their spiritual life in the seventies, but they're out there in little nooks and crannies and in the countryside, people who look and dress straight, insurance salesmen types, but they're really meditators and chanters, closet devotees.
George Harrison
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I am humble enough to recognize that I have made mistakes, but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are.
Michael Heseltine
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The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.
William Shenstone
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