Fruits and Nuts (original) (raw)
Quotes For Gardeners
Fruit and Nuts
Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo
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Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies,
From the Storms defended and inclement Skies;
Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground,
Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around.
Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold:
The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold,
Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows,
With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows,
The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear,
and verdant Olives flourish round the Year.
- Homer, Odyssey, circa 850 B.C.
Alexander Pope translation 1725
For thirty years I have looked for a swordmaster. Many times leaves fell, new ones sprouted. One glimpse of peach blossoms - now no more doubts, just this. - Lingyun Zhiqin's enlightenment poem, as retold by Zen Master Dogen
What wond'rous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Insnar'd with flow'rs, I fall on grass. - Andrew Marvell, 1621 - 1678
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Amazingly enough, almost all the fruits grown in home gardens, from strawberries
to apricots, are members of the same plant family, Rosaceae, along with such
decorative favorites as roses, mountain ash, flowering quince .... Worldwide,
there are about 3,400 members of this very ancient plant group,
which exhibit primitive characteristics.
- Diane E. Bilderback
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. - Galileo
In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground. - James Boswell, 1740-1795
Why aren't bananas lonely? They hang out in bunches.
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. - Mother Teresa
Thou didst create the deserts, mountains, and forests, but I produced the orchards, gardens, and groves. - Turkmeni folk song
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. - Aristotle
Write me down As one who loved poetry, And persimmons. - Shiki
This Halloween night, we cut and eat,
Fuyu persimmons, firm and sweet.
- Mike Garofalo, Cuttings - October
When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
- Ray Kroc
Wyth a saw thou schalt the tre kytte And with a knyfe smouth make hytte Klene a-tweyne the stok of the tre Where-yn that they graffe schall be Make thy Kyttyng' of thy graffe By-twyne the newe & the olde staffe. - John Gardener, The Feate of Gardening, 1440
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. - A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, 1887
Thought is the blossom, language the bud, action the fruit behind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry. - James Hervey
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. - N. D. Stice
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. - Alice M. Swaim
Sex and Desire - Quotes for Gardeners
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. - Charles Hare
He that would have fruit must climb the tree. - Thomas Fuller
When you enter the land and plant any kind of fruit tree, regard its fruit as forbidden. For three years you are to consider it forbidden; it must not be eaten. In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, an offering of praise to the Lord. But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way your harvest will be increased. I am the Lord your God. - Bible, Leviticus 19:23-25
Why did the kiwifruit go out with the prune? Because it couldn't get a date.
The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering. - Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961, Priapus: Keeper-of-Orchards
Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being. - Frances Mayes, Bella Tuscany
The pecan (Carya illinoensis) is native to the Americas and naturally distributed in the Mississippi Valley and the river valleys of Texas. The Indians introduced pecans to the white man by trading for tools and trinkets. In this way, the traders moved the pecan from its native range to the eastern states. The first pecan nursery was established in 1772 and from this small beginning, pecan production has grown into a multimillion dollar industry in Florida and South Georgia. - The Farm Store
George Fenwick gave the seal of Connecticut to the colony when they purchased Saybrook Fort in 1644. The seal represents a vineyard of fifteen grape vines and a hand issuing from clouds holds a label with the motto: Quitranstulit sustinet. Gay Gardening - Connecticut
A Collection Growing to Over 2,700 Quotes Arranged by 130 Topics
Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Poetry, Maxims, Quips, Cliches, Adages
Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo
In the nut, nothing is lost, except perhaps the noise it makes when breaking. - World Wide Walnut
In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. - Issa
The most beautiful fig may contain a worm. - Proverb from Zululand
Every thought is a seed. If you plant Crab apples don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
I'm Charley's aunt from Brazil - where the nuts come from. - Brandon Thomas, 1856-1914
Why did the strawberry call 911? It was in a jam.
September fruits are on the bough And the bright apple is king of all, Red, golden, russet - brimming now, Ripe for the picking before they fall. - David Squire
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. - Channing Pollack
A strawberry blossom will not sweeten dry bread.
- Buganda Proverb
The space between the leaves is full of sunlight.
At the sharp edge, no longer crowded with past and future,
fruits ripen on the lemon tree in the silence rising from the morning air. - Ok-Koo Kand Grosjean, Garden
We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers nor the downward rush of the stream; sooner or later, everything comes to its fruition. - Loy Ching-Yuen
winter dusk the rhythm of her knife chopping fruit and nuts - Elizabeth St. Jacques,Poetry in the Light
Fruit should pay for the welfare of leaves. - Yiddish Proverb
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson
And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised. - Francois de Malherbe
She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. - Willa Cather
The nut doesn't reveal the tree it contains.
- Proverb from ancient Egypt
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon. - Alice Meynell
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up. - Mary Cassatt
And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing. - Ezekiel 47:12
Here's to three, old apple-tree;
Hence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow,
And whence thou mayst apples bear enow!
Hats full! Caps full!
Bushel, bushel sacks full!
And my pockets full, too! Huzza!
- Traditional saying
Matthew 3:10 - And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees:
therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit
is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Luke 3:9 - And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees:
every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit
is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Do not be afraid to go out on a limb ... That's where the fruit is. Anonymous
All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus - More had not Alcinous! - Austin Dobson, Garden Song, 1895
God gives the nuts but he does not crack them. German Proverb
Little by little grow the bananas. - Proverb from the Congo
He who plants a tree Plants a hope. - Lucy Larcom (1826-1893), Plant a Tree
Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me,
the way you almost entirely omit to flower
and into the seasonably-resolute fruit
uncelebratedly thrust your purest secret.
Like the tube of a fountain, your bent bough drives the sap
downwards and up: and it leaps from its sleep, scarce waking,
into the joy of its sweetest achievement.
- Rainer Marie Rilke, Sixth Elegy
A fig for a care, a fig for a woe! - John Heywood, 1497-1580
There is peace in the garden. Peace and results. - Ruth Stout
Anyone can count the number of seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. - Robert H. Schuller
He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him. - Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
Fast Ripe, Fast Rotten. Japanese Proverb
The better the fruit, the more wasps to eat it. German Proverb
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. -C. G. Jung
The three daughters of Hesperus, the Hesperides, fled to Italy from Africa. Aegle took her citrons to the country near Lake Garda, Arethusa bore her lemons to Liguria, and Hesperthusa sowed seed of oranges in the Campania Felix. - J. B. Ferrarius, 1646, A fable
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning. - Ezra Pound
How do you compare apples and oranges? By their nutritional value. - Marshall Elizer
Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved. - Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
A little gluttony as regards to fruit is so natural! As to myself, I cannot honestly deny, and therefore frankly confess, that I sympathize with our mother Eve. - Cornelia J. Randolph, The Parlor Garden, 1884
Woodcutter.
Cut my shadow from me.
Free me from the torment
of being without fruit.
Why was I born among mirrors?
Day goes round and round me.
The night copies me
in all its stars.
I want to live without my reflection.
And then let me dream
that ants and thistledown
are my leaves and my parrots.
- F. Garcia Lorca, The Song of the Barren Orange Tree
Flowers - Quotes for Gardeners
When life hands you a lemon, say, "Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?" - Henry Rollins.
Alive with bees ...
radiant pink
peach blossoms
- Mike Garofalo, Cuttings
Several ripe persimmons
Left on the branches;
Gray clouds come and go.
- Santoka Taneda, 1882-1940
Mountain Tasting, Translated by John Stevens
Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. - Alexander Pope, 1688-1744
O lovely apple! beautifully and completely rotten, hardly a contour marred --
perhaps a little shriveled at the top but that aside perfect in every detail!
- William Carlos Williams, Perfection, 1944
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. - Wendell Berry
The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world's luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented. - Mark Twain
Vegetables - Quotes for Gardeners
The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again is packed in a mass of shock absorbing, vermin proof pulp, sealed up in a waterproof, ironwood case, and finally cased in a vegetable porcupine of spines, almost impregnable. There is no nut so protected; there is no nut in our woods to compare with it as food. What is a Chesnut
A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour Daphne carried in her hair; Bent low, nay almost fallen to the ground, The citron, heavy with is yellow load; And, last, the graceful lemon with its fruit Of pleasant smell and shaped like virgins' breasts. - Camoes, 1497, Journal of his Voyages to India
Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky. - John Gould Fletcher, 1886-1950, The Windmills
Ripening grapes in the summer sun - reason enough to plod ahead. Where are the fig blossoms? Exceptions to every rule. Fruits are the practice of seeds. Some pleasures lick, chew, savor and swallow us. Promises of fruit being "Sweet" and "Juicy" will sell seeds, and much much more. Does a plum tree with no fruit have Buddha Nature? Whack!! Planting bare-root fruit trees is a paradigm case of optimism. In the right place at the right time, tomato worms on tomato vines. - Mike Garofalo, Pulling Onions: The Quips and Maxims of a Gardener
Don't shake the tree when the pears fall off themselves. Slovakian Proverb
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night. - Robert Frost
In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet - William Wordsworth
Trees and Shrubs at Our Home in Red Bluff, California
The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native fruit which for the most part went to the cider mill. But since the temperance reform and the general introduction of grafted fruit, no wild apples, such as I see everywhere in deserted pastures, and where the woods have grown up among them, are set out. I fear that he who walks over these hills a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. - Henry David Thoreau, Journal, November 16, 1850
References, Links, Reading
Apricots: California Apricot Council
The Backyard Berry Book: A Hands-On Guide to Growing Berries, Brambles, and Vine Fruit in the Home Garden. By Stella Otto. Otto Graphics, 1995. 288 pages. ISBN: 0963452061.
Fruit Trees at Our Home in Red Bluff
Grapes: North Carolina Grapes and Wines
Grapes: Grape Talk
Grapes: Smart Wine
Grapes: Wine Guide
Rodale's Successful Organic Gardening: Fruits and Berries. By Susan McClure. Rodale Press, 1996.
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