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If you would be happy all your life,
plant a
garden.
Chinese proverb |
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For the Infinite has sowed his name in the heavens
in burning stars,
but on the earth he has sowed his name in tender
flowers.
Jean Paul Richter |
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Flowers always make people better, happier, and
more helpful;
they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank |
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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
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In one's garden a person may be one's own artist
without apology or explanation. Here is one spot
where each
may experience the "romance of possibility."
Louise Beebe Wilder
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I'm still devoted to the garden. . . although an
old man,
I am but a young gardener.
Thomas Jefferson
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Of course, the character of my garden
is also
determined by things beyond
any human decision, mine or anyone
else's.
Allen Lacy
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| Those who plant trees plant hope.
Lucy Larcom
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I have never had so many good ideas, day after day,
as when I worked in the garden.
John Erskine |
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It's difficult to think anything but pleasant
thoughts while eating a home-grown tomato.
Lewis Grizzard |
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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.
Mirabel Osler
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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
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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
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To cultivate a garden is.
. . to
go hand in hand with Nature
in some of her most beautiful
processes, to
learn something
of her choicest secrets, and
to have a more intelligent
interest
awakened in the beautiful order
of her works elsewhere.
Christian Bovee
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When the world wearies and society ceases to
satisfy there's always the garden.
William Affleck
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The work of a garden bears visible fruits--in a
world
where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.
Pam Brown |
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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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