Jean Paul Richter

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful;
they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.

Luther Burbank

A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith,
the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.

Russell Page

Louise Beebe Wilder

I'm still devoted to the garden. . . although an old man,
I am but a young gardener.

Thomas Jefferson

Of course, the character of my garden
is also determined by things beyond
any human decision, mine or anyone else's.

Allen Lacy

Mirabel Osler

My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come
and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music.
Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

Alexander Smith

I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as
one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It
gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom
of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

Cicero

When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy there's always the garden.

William Affleck

The work of a garden bears visible fruits--in a world
where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.

Pam Brown

Native Americans all over the U.S. and Canada use a term they call
the Three Sisters to describe the Native American way of life
through the gardening technique of planting corn, beans and squash
together on the same mound.  These Three Sisters - corn, beans
and squash - supplement and complement each other.  The vines
of the bean plant grow up the corn stalk.  The huge leaves of
the squash vines keep the ground moist for all of the roots.
The nutritious vitamins from each of the plants escapes
into the soil so that they each benefit from one another.

Deborah Champlain

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Vigen Quoiran

I do not envy the owners of very large gardens.  The garden should fit its
owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should be neither
too large nor too small, but just comfortable.

Gertrude Jekyll

Those who plant gardens, plant happiness.

Chinese Proverb

Russell Page

When I go into my garden, all the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence,
all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart
of a little child that asks nothing beyond its present moment of innocent bliss.

Celia Thaxter

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as the paint,
and the soil and sky as the canvas--working with nature provides the technique.

Elizabeth Murray

Where would the gardener be if there were no more weeds?

Chuang Tzu