1. “Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ”
― Beatrix Potter
2. “A weed is but an unloved flower.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
3. “However many years she lived, Mary always felt that ‘she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow’.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
4. “The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”
― Abraham Lincoln
5. “My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece”
― Claude Monet
6. “May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends,
And many books, both true.”
― Abraham Cowley
7. “When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.”
― Horace Walpole
8. “It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth, to feel at one’s fingertips the possibilities of the new season.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
9. “But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.”
― Edna Ferber
10. “I’ve got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.”
― Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book
BY SHWETA TIWARI
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