# Quote — Gertrude Stein, Wars I Have Seen

> A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

- Author: [Gertrude Stein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gertrude-stein.md)
- Book: [Wars I Have Seen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gertrude-stein/wars-i-have-seen.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gertrude-stein/wars-i-have-seen/a-vegetable-garden

## More from this book

> Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gertrude-stein/wars-i-have-seen/is-it-worse.md)

> War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gertrude-stein/wars-i-have-seen/war-is-never.md)

> It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realize the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gertrude-stein/wars-i-have-seen/it-is-funny.md)