…is reading some quotes that gardens inspire. (If you have a favorite that’s not here, please email it, and I’ll post it.)
• “Though an old man, I am but a young gardener.” – Thomas Jefferson
• “Whoever said, ‘Do something right and you won’t have to do it again’ never weeded a garden.” – Anonymous
• “If you want to be happy for an hour, get drunk. If you want to be happy for three days, get married. If you want to be happy forever, make a garden.” – Chinese proverb
• “What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back with a hinge on it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
• “All that in this delightful garden grows, should happy be and have immortal bliss.” – Edmond Spencer
• “Gardening…just another day at the plant.” – Anonymous
• “When Heaven falls to Earth, it becomes a Garden.” – Stouffer
• “Gardening – a labor that begins with daybreak and ends with back break.” – Anonymous
• “A garden is a friend you can visit anytime.” – Anonymous
• “An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life.” – Anonymous
• “Earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Seed + Sun + Water = Weeds” – Anonymous
• “Surviving is not enough, said the butterfly, One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Anderson
• “Born to garden – forced to work.” – Anonymous
• “Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.” — Henry Mitchell
• “Gardening requires lots of water, most of it in the form of perspiration.” — Lou Erickson
• “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
• “One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.” – Dan Bennett
• “All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.” – Helen Hayes
• “An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.” – Leslie Hall
• “Gardening: A leisure-time activity involving lots of time and little leisure.” – Anonymous
• “The land! That is where our roots are. There is the basis of our physical life.
The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.” – Henry Ford
• “I’ve had enough of gardening…I’m just about ready to throw in the trowel.” – Anonymous
• “In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams as beautiful.” – Abram I. Urban
• “Gardeners know the best dirt.” – Anonymous
• “The only thing I grow in my garden is tired.” – Anonymous
• “To have complete satisfaction from flowers you must have time to spend with them. There must be rapport. I talk to them and they talk to me.” – Princess Grace of Monaco
• “A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.” – Doug Larson
• “Flowers and plants are silent presences; they nourish every sense except the ear.” – May Sarton
• “People who don’t know how to weed shouldn’t do it. People who know how to weed are gardeners.” – Anonymous
• “Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of imagination. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners.” – Mrs C.W. Earle
• “Compost happens!” – Anonymous
• “It is only when you start to garden – probably after fifty – that you realize something important happens every day.” – Geoffrey B. Charlesworth
• “Gardener’s Rule of Thumb: Weed ’em and Reap.” – Anonymous
• “When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves.” — Ken Druse
• “I believe that gardens themselves are very healing. To be surrounded by the exquisite beauty of nature is to experience a healing of the soul.” – Anonymous
• “Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.” – Thomas Jefferson
• “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” – Greek proverb
• “Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.” – Anonymous
• “You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.” – Anonymous
• “Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.” – The Koran
• “A garden is where the soul feels at home.” – Anonymous
• “A beautiful garden is a work of heart.” – Anonymous
• “As is the gardener, so is the garden.” – Anonymous
• “Flowers feed the soul.” – Anonymous
• “Friends are like flowers in the garden of life.” – Anonymous
• “A beautiful garden is your reward for doing God’s yard work.” – Anonymous
• “The shortest way to heaven is through a garden gate.” – Anonymous
• “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Anonymous
• “To plant seeds of happiness, just smile.” – Anonymous
• “Who plants a seed beneath the sod, and waits to see, believes in God.” – Anonymous
• “God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.” – Anonymous
• “A weed is a plant whose virtues have not been discovered.” – Anonymous
• “We must cultivate our garden.” – Voltaire
• “And yet, ere I descend to the grave/May I a small house and a large garden have” – Abraham Cowley
• “This used to be among my prayers – a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden…” – Horace
• “A Garden is a lovesome thing.” – Charlotte Alington Barnard
