Nothing is more completely the child of Art than a Garden. – Walter Scott
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. – Alfred Austin
An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up. – Leslie Hall
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. – Phyllis Theroux
When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside too. – Terri Guillemets
I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Be it deep or shallow, red or black, sand or clay, the soil is the link between the rock core of the earth and the living things on its surface. It is the foothold for the plants we grow. Therein lies the main reason for our interest in soils. – Roy Simonson, USDA Yearbook of Agriculture, 1957
O ye Sun and Moon, oh ye beans and roses, oh ye jigs and juleps, Bless ye the Lord, Praise Him and Magnify Him Forever. Amen. – Virginia Cary Hudson, “Gardening,” O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, 1962
Old gardeners never die, they just run out of thyme. – Gardening Saying
By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course. – Henry Mitchell, The Essential Earthman, 1981
God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure. – Francis Bacon
A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body. – George Herbert
Just as a prism of glass miters light and casts a colored braid, a garden sings sweet incantations the human heart strains to hear. Hiding in every flower, in every leaf, in every twig and bough, are reflections of the God who once walked with us in Eden. – Tonia Triebwasser
