Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
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.
We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.
Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content.
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.
My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.
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