Gardens

When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. – Polish Proverb

There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues. – Hal Borland (1900–1978)

More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. – Spanish Proverb

History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils. – Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. – Henry David Thoreau

Learn to be an observer in all seasons. Every single day, your garden has something new and wonderful to show you. – Author Unknown

Bloom where you are planted. – Author Unknown

And I beseech you, forget not to informe yourselfe as dilligently as may be, in things that belong to Gardening. – John Evelyn

Flowers grow in inches, but are destroyed by feet. – Gardening Saying

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. – Lewis Gannit

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved. – Frank Swinnerton

We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot. – Leonardo da Vinci

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything — except itself. – May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep, 1968

Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts. – Author Unknown

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. – Alfred Austin

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. – Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America

Gardeners learn by trowel and error. – Gardening Saying

Fingers now scented with sage and rosemary, a kneeling gardener is lost in savory memories. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com

If I finish my day with no garden dirt under my fingernails and nothing new learned, it is a day wasted! – Valerie Clague

Laying out grounds… may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting…. it is to assist Nature in moving the affections… the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature… – William Wordsworth, letter to George Beaumont, 1805 October 17th [Author trivia: