Garden Quotes

Whoever has travelled life's dull round Wherever his stages may have been May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.

To garden you open your personal space to admit a few a great many or thousands of plants which exude charm pleasure beauty oxygen conversation friendship confidence and other rewards should you succeed in meeting their basic needs. This is why people garden. It can be easy but challenging and the rewards are priceless.

All gardens even the most native and naturalistic benefit from the hand of an artful pruner. In this season where the garden is poised for the green flood of springtime remember that our gardens are co?creations shared with mother earth. And like any good mother she expects you to tidy up your room. Now get clipping!

In friendship's fragrant garden There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for you.

In green old gardens hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife Here I have leisure to breathe and move And to do my work in a nobler way; To sing my songs and to say my say; To Dream my dreams and to love my love; To hold my faith and to live my life. Making the most of its shadowy day.

Take it from us it is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.

Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother you died 15 years ago. pain a rapier cut until finally there was just peace like the sweetness of gardenias in the crystal vase on your yellow kitchen table. so fragrant. your voice lingers in my ear reminding scolding guiding a pleasant mantra of tenderness magic words that move my palms your palms. together we are molding helping creating. in the mirror I see your eyes your beautiful brown circles looking back so radiant. dont forget me you whispered the day you died. I wont.

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.... What I am saying is that if we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy which markets not just the produce of the earth but also the earths ability to produce.

This cabin Mary in my sight appears Built as it has been in our waning years A rest afforded to our weary feet Preliminary to the last retreat.

Cultivate the garden within. What was Paradise? but a garden an orchard of trees and herbs full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.