678 Quotes About Garden
- Author Jasper Johns
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Object in/ and space - the first impulse may be to give the object - a position - to place the object. (The object had a position to begin with.) Next - to change the position of the object. - Rauschenberg's early sculptures - A board with some rocks on it. The rocks can be anywhere on the board. - Cage's Japanese rock garden - The rocks can be anywhere (within the garden)...
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- Author Lady Bird Johnson
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Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.
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- Author Lyndon B. Johnson
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The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.
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- Author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!
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- Author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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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.
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- Author Thomas Jefferson
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Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
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- Author Thomas Jefferson
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Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
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- Author Thomas Jefferson
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Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
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- Author Thomas Jefferson
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I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.
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