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Flowers are words which even a babe
may understand.
- Arthur Cleveland Case -
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
- Theodore Roethke -
see What's
Coming Up #148
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread
around encouraging young things to grow.
- Thornton Wilder -
see What's
Coming Up #35
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots
in earth and manure.
- D.H. Lawrence -
see What's
Coming Up #27
Man masters Nature not by force but by understanding.
- Jacob Bronowski -
Give me a spark of Nature's
fire.
That's all the learning I desire.
- Robert Burns -
At the heart of gardening there is a
belief in the miraculous
- Mirabel Osler -
see
What's Coming Up #164
Failure is enriching your compost
pile.
- Anne Raver -
see What's Coming Up #22
Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe
in life.
- Myron S. Kaufmann, in The
Natural Habitat Garden -
see Growing
Concerns #759 and What's Coming Up #76
We must learn to appreciate the innate
wisdom of nature's chaos.
- Neil Diboll, Prairie Nursery -
see
What's Coming Up #33 and What's Coming Up #79
Gardens also teach us to live more in
the moment - to listen, to watch, to touch and to dream.
- James van Sweden -
see What's Coming Up #72
Flowers are restful to look at.
They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
- Sigmund Freud-
see
What's Coming Up #77
February... Now more than ever one must remind
oneself that it is wasteful folly
to wish that time would pass, or -- as the puritanical old saying
used to have it --
to kill time until it kills you.
- Joseph Wood
Krutch, The Twelve Seasons, 1949 -
Anxious gardeners are always looking
over their shoulders.
- Christopher Lloyd -
see What's
Coming Up #53
There are far too many self esteem
problems in the world as it is.
No sense taking on plant guilt, too.
- Janet Macunovich -
see Growing
Concerns #759
Until... some captious imp of a
plantling from the High Sierras... flourishes as if at home in the
surroundings you have made for it with your bungling hands and a
prayer in your heart. It is then that your crushed spirit will lift
and soar..."
- Louise Beebe Wilder -
see What's Coming Up #81
The odd thing about common sense is
that it isn't very common.
- Voltaire -
see What's
Coming Up #96
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and
I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The
longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to
harm us
- Voltaire -
see What's
Coming Up #106
Never go to a doctor whose office
plants have died.
- Erma Bombeck -
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a
man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg, and his
whole body to irresistible destruction.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In spring at the end of the day, you
should smell like dirt.
- Margaret Atwood -
see
What's Coming Up #39
Let no one be discouraged by how much
there is to learn.
- Gertrude Jekyll -
see What's
Coming Up #52
There is more to life than simply
increasing its speed.
- Mahatma Ghandi-
see What's
Coming Up #67
To travel hopefully is a better thing
than to arrive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson -
see What's Coming Up #67
The Golden Age was never the present Age.
- Benjamin Franklin, in Poor
Richard's Almanack , 1750-
see What's Coming
Up #74
What is a butterfly? At best
He's but a caterpillar drest...
- Benjamin Franklin, in Poor
Richard's Almanack, 1740 -
see What's Coming Up #99
Gardening transcends everything that
otherwise divides us.
- Allen Lacy, in The Inviting
Garden -
see What's
Coming Up #125
In a well-made garden every day is
new.
- Allen Lacy, in The Inviting
Garden -
see What's Coming Up #85
Strolling with my girlie where the dew is pearly early in the
morning,
Butterflies all flutter up and kiss each little buttercup at
dawning,
If I had Aladdin's lamp for only a day,
I'd make a wish and here's what I'd say:
Nothing could be finer than to be with
Carolina in the morning.
- Song lyrics by Gus Kahn, from
Carolina in the Mornin' -
see What's Coming Up #112
I was seldom able to see an
opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
- Mark Twain -
see What's Coming Up #113
Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
see
What's Coming Up #127
The trouble with the world
is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of
doubt.
- Bertrand Russell
In the most beautiful gardens amid glorious
diversity, that's where we have seen these words displayed, baked
into a ceramic tile for the permanency they rate, "I don't remember
planting this."
Our England is a garden and such
gardens are not made
By singing "Oh, how beautiful", and sitting in the shade.
- Rudyard Kipling, The Glory of
the Garden, 1911 -
While working among the little plants
of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own
orbit.
- Louise Beebe Wilder, in
Pleasures and Problems of a Rock Garden -
see What's
Coming Up #125 and What's
Coming Up #153
Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the
very teeth of winter.
- Louise Beebe Wilder -
see What's
Coming Up #139
What this country needs is dirtier
fingernails and cleaner minds
- Will Rogers -
see
What's Coming Up #164
A garden is a thing of beauty and a
job forever.
- Richard Briers -
Nature is always hinting at us.
- Robert Frost -
"It is not enough merely to exist,"
said he, "I need freedom, sunshine, and a little flower for a
companion."
- Hans Christian Andersen, in The
Butterfly -
see What's
Coming Up #167
The cool night air will do me good...
I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars to become
acquainted with the butterflies... As for the large animals -- I am
not at all afraid of any of them. I have my claws.
- The rose, in her farewell to
The Little Prince -
see
What's Coming Up #166
We cannot have islands of excellence
in a sea of slovenly indifference.
- John W. Gardener -
Excellence is doing ordinary things
extraordinarily well.
- John W. Gardner in The Pursuit
of Excellence -
see
What's Coming Up #174
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