Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.
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.
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
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.
Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp.
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
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