“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.”
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“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
“I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.”
“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.”
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”
“Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.”
“Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.”
“My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.”
“A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.”
“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.”
“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.”
“Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.”
“What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?”
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
“To dwell is to garden.”
“All gardening is landscape painting.”
“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.”
“How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.”
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.”
“Gardening is not a rational act.”
“Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.”
“I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.”
“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.”
“Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.”