Gertrude Jekyll Quotes
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Gertrude Jekyll Quotes & Sayings
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I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death
— Guillaume Apollinaire
At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory ...
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
— Gertrude Jekyll
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
— Gertrude Jekyll
She was unprepared for the landscape to be so altered. For there to be no trace of that evening, forty autumns ago.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Leadership makes a difference in the results we create and the quality of life we live.
— Bob Anderson
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
— Gertrude Jekyll
A garden is a grand teacher ... above all it teaches entire trust.
— Gertrude Jekyll
It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.
— Gertrude Jekyll
I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.
— George MacDonald
Everyone makes mistakes - mistakes are correctable.
— T. B. Joshua
The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.
— Gertrude Jekyll
Arsenius the Great: I have often regretted the things I have said, but I have never regretted my silence.
— Evgenij Vodolazkin
My music tastes are often 20 years behind.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
I am light and free and my path ahead is smooth and wide through a land of burgeoning promise.
— Kevin Hearne
It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig ... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.
— Gertrude Jekyll
To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.
— Gertrude Jekyll
There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.
— Gertrude Jekyll
