gardening

If you would be happy all your life,
plant a garden.

Chinese proverb

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

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

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

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

Those who plant trees plant hope.

Lucy Larcom

I have never had so many good ideas, day after day, as when I worked in the garden.

John Erskine

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a home-grown tomato.

Lewis Grizzard

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

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

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

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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