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"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, scholar, orator "To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch their renewal of life -- this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do." -- Charles Dudley Warner, American newspaperman, author, editor, publisher
A garden is a friend you can visit anytime - Anonymous. Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade. - Rudyard Kipling Gardens are a form of autobiography - Sydney Eddison "In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful." Abram L. Urban "Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity." Lindley Karstens "There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling." - Unknown "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." Gertrude Stein "As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them." Henry Ward Beecher Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed." Lewis Gannit "Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness." Barbara Cheney "There are many tired gardeners but I've seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at heart. Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. The one absolute of gardeners is faith. Regardless of how bad past gardens have been, every gardener believes that next year's will be better. It is easy to age when there is nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for; gardeners, however, simply refuse to grow up. Thomas Jefferson said once, "Though an old man, I am but a young gardener"." - Allan Armitage "More grows in the garden than the gardener sows." - Old Spanish Proverb It seemed to my friend that the creation of a landscape-garden offered to the proper muse the most magnificent of opportunities. Here indeed was the fairest field for the display of the imagination, in the endless combining of forms of novel beauty." - Poe "And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden - You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden." - Rudyard Kipling "What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our starts the flowers of the heaven." - A.J. Balfour
"To see a world "Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful: they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul." - Luther Burbank "A gardener learns more in the mistakes than in the successes." - Barbara Borland "To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch their renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do." - Charles Dudley Warner, author, editor, publisher (1829 - 1900) "Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay." - George Meredith "And then my heart with pleasure fills "Gardens cannot be considered in detachment from the people who made them." - Derek Clifford "The best thing that can come out of a garden are gifts for other people." - Jamie Jobb "To me the meanest flower that blows can give "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 "There is a garden in every childhood, and enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again." - Elizabeth Lawrence "Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow." "The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world." - Vita Sackville-West "If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk; happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening." - British comedian and playwright Arthur Smith "If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity" - ..Robert Fulgham. "As the Garden Grows, so does the Gardener." "One who plants a garden, plants happiness." - Chinese proverb "If you would have a mind at peace, a heart that cannot harden, go find a door that opens wide upon a lovely garden." "Don't grumble that roses have thorns, be thankful that thorns have roses." "Tickle the earth with a hoe, it will laugh a harvest." "You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt." "In the garden, my soul is sunshine." "If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden" - Chinese Proverb "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." - The Koran "A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul." - Sadi |
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