Gardening Quotes
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path. Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow. Use plants to bring life. We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. What's a butterfly garden without butterflies? When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
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