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. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

It is like the seed put in the soil – the more one sows, the greater the harvest. – Orison Swett Marden

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. – Voltaire

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.