QuotesFromThe

Garden

Quotes Compiled by Howitt & FHS Health Students

Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul.

Linda Solegato

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

Robert Brault

Gardeners are more likelyto be organized and optimisticthan non-gardeners.

The greatest giftof the garden

is the restorationof the five senses.

Hanna Rion

Coffee.Garden.Coffee.Does a good morningneed anything else?

Betsy Canas Garmon

The love ofgardening

is a seed once sown

that never dies.

Gertrude Jekyll

Don't wear perfumein the garden, unless you want to bepollinated by bees.

Anne Raver

In joyor sadness,

flowers are ourconstant friends.

Kozuko Okakura

My garden of flowers is alsomy garden of thoughts and

dreams.The thoughts grow as freelyas flowers, and the dreams

are as beautiful.

Abram L. Urban

20 minutes ofgardening a weekcan boost moodand reducemental distress.

If you havea garden

and a library,you have

everythingyou need.

Cicero

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Walt Whitman

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees.

When planning for life, train and educate people.

Chinese Proverb

Gardeners have to be a combined chemist,botanist, andmeteorologist tocarry all such information in one’shead and be able tosend it forth when visitors pose embarrassing questions.

Dr. E.J. Salisbury

Every flower is a soulblossoming in nature.

Gerard de Nerval

To be overcome by the fragranceof flowersis a delectable formof defeat.

Beverly Nichols

Gardens are a form of autobiography.

Sydney Eddison

I cultivatemy garden,and my gardencultivates me.

Robert Brault

Half the interestof a garden

is the constantexercise

of theimagination.

Mrs. C.W. Earle

All my hurts my garden spade can heal.Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no otheroccupation like gardening,

if you were to creep upbehind someone at their work,

you would find themsmiling.

Mirabel Osler

My green thumbcame only as a resultof the mistakes I madewhile learning to see thingsfrom the plant'spoint of view.

H. Fred Dale

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Flowers really do intoxicate me.

Vita Sackville-West

You can bury a lotof troubles

digging in the dirt.

Unknown

If you pass by the color purple in a

field and don't notice it, God gets real pissed off.

Alice Walker

I have great faith in a seed.Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared toexpect wonders.

Henry David Thoreau

Green fingersare theextension ofa verdant heart.

Russell Page

One of the most delightfulthings about a garden

is the anticipation it provides.

W.E. Johns

We can complain because rose

bushes have thorns,or rejoice because

the bushes have roses.

Abraham Lincoln

Garden as ifyou will live forever.

William Kent

Flowers seem intended for the solace ofordinary humanity.

John Ruskin

Bread feeds the body,indeed,

but flowers also feed the soul.

The Koran

Without labor nothing prospers.

Sophocles

When weeding, the best way

to make sure you are removing

a weed and not a valuable

plant is to pull on it.

If itcomes out of

the ground easily,it is a valuable plant.

Unknown

71% of gardenersdo not feel old,compared with 57% of non-gardeners.

Trees are your best antiques.

Alexander Smith

‘Tis my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes.

William Wordworth

I will be the gladdest thingUnder the sun!I will touch a hundred flowersAnd not pick one.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Gardening is about enjoyingthe smell of things, growing in the soil,

getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time

to soak up a little peace and serenity.

Lindley Karstens

To dig one's own spadeinto one's own earth!Has life anything betterto offer than this?

Beverley Nichols

Earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Apprentice yourselfto nature. Not a day will passwithout her openinga new and wondrous worldof experience tolearn from and enjoy.

Richard W. Langer

Why try to explain miracles to your kids,when you can just have them plant a garden.

Robert Brault

How fair is a gardenamid the trials and

passions of existence.

Benjamin Disraeli

What is a weed?A weed is a plant whose virtues havenot yet beendiscovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have never had so many

good ideas day after dayas when I worked

in the garden.

John Erskine

Home gardening is thehealthiest and safest

form of gardening out there today.

My garden ismy favorite teacher.

Betsy Canas Garmon

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreamsthan Emperor's.

Mary Cantwell

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

Lewis Grizzard

No two gardens are the same.No two days are the same in one

garden.

Hugh Johnson

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are alwaysoptimistic, always enterprising and never satisfied. They always lookforward to doing something better than they have ever done before.

Vita Sackville-West

I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make

something grow; to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal,

to honor the earth, to leave a mark. Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.

Julie Moir Messervy

When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves.

Ken Druse

To pick a flower is so much more

satisfying than just observing it, or

photographing it ... So in later years, I have grown in my

garden as many flowers as possible

for children to pick.

Anne Scott-James

Always try to grow in your garden some

plant or plants out ofthe ordinary,

something your neighbors never attempted. For

you can receive no greater flattery than

to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your

plant and ask, ‘What is that?’

Richardson Wright

My garden ismy most beautifulmasterpiece.

Claude Monet

Every garden is unique with a multitude of choices of soils, plants and themes. Finding your garden theme is as easy as seeing

what brings a smile to your face.

Teresa Watkins