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Garden Sayings
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"The Earth Laughs in Flowers"
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"As Rosemary is to the Spirit, so Lavender is to the Soul."
--Anonymous
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"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
--Mahatma Gandhi
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"To cultivate a garden is to walk with God"
--Christian Bovee
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"Cares melt when you kneel in your garden."
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"If you have a mind at peace,
a heart that cannot harden,
go find a door that opens wide
upon a lovely garden."
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"There is peace in the garden. Peace and results."
--Ruth Stout
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"Weed 'um and reap!"
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"Won't you come into my garden? I would like my roses to see you."
--Richard Sheridan
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"There are fairies at the bottom of our Garden."
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"Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps"
--Amos Bronson Alcott
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"I garden, therefore I am."
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"I used to love my garden
but now that love is dead;
For I found my bachelor buttons,
in my black-eyed susan's bed."
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"Old gardeners never die, they just spade away."
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"My heart belongs to my garden."
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"I planted the seed, God made it grow."
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"One who plants a garden, plants happiness."
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"A garden is a friend you can visit any time."
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"Thyme began in a garden."
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"I Don't Remember Planting This."
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"When We Love - We Grow"
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"Sow Seeds of Love and Gather Blessings of the Spirit"
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"He Who Plants a Garden Plants Happiness"
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"As the Garden Grows, so does the Gardener"
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"If Friends were Flowers -- I'd Pick You"
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"Bloom Where you are Planted"
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"Bless My Weeds"
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"Garden Friends Welcome"
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"Plant Kindness -- Gather Love"
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"Now is the time of the illuminated woods
...when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp"
--J. Burroughs
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"In the Garden, my soul is sunshine"
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"Cares melt when you kneel in your garden"
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"Some people like to make a little garden out of life!"
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"Kiss of the sun for pardon.
Song of the birds for mirth.
You're closer to God's heart
in a garden than any place else on earth."
--Dorothy Frances Gurney
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"Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature"
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"I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself."
--Sir Peter Smithers
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"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads"
--Thoreau
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"If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And of thy meager store
Two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul."
--Sheikh Muslih-uddin Saadi Shirazi, 13th century poet from the THE GULISTAN OF SAADI
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"Though I do not believe that a plant will
up where no seed has been,
I have great faith in a seed.
Convince me that you have a seed there,
and I am prepared to expect wonders."
--Henry David Thoreau
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"Cultivate the garden within"
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"Herbs Make Good Scents."
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"There's Never Enough Thyme."
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"Please Touch the Herbs."
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"Man - despite his artistic pretentions,
his sophistication and his many accomplishments
owes his existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil
and the fact it rains."
--Anonymous
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS...OF GARDENING
Thou shalt be patient til it's thyme to garden
Thou shalt be outstanding in thy field
Thou shalt lovingly care for the Earth
Thou shalt weed thy garden diligently
Thou shalt take time to smell the flowers
Thou shalt keep a fresh from the garden attitude
Thou shalt give freely of the bounty of thy harvest
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors soil
Thou shalt listen to your Garden Angels
Thou shalt bloom where you are planted and
grow strong under GOD'S TENDER CARE
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"Garden Angels gather here!"
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"Just another day at the *plant*."
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"He who plants a seed below the sod, believes in God."
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"Garden Tours: 5 cents"
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"A weed is only a misplaced plant."
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"Garden of Weedin."
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"Gardeners Know All The Dirt."
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"Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him,
sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees."
-Rudyard Kipling
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"Little Garden gods,
Bless the time of sowing,
Watering and growing;
Lastly, when our sunflower nods,
And our rambler's red array
Waits the honey-bee labours,
Bless our garden that it may
Beat our next-door neighbour's."
--Cottage Garden Prayer
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"Friends are flowers in life's garden."
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"When you walk into a garden you know God is there,
you Don't need a cathedral to remind you of his care."
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"So many seeds - so little time."
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"Gardening Enjoyment...
Put on a wide straw hat,
Dress in loose-fitting clothes,
Hold a little trowel in one hand
And a cool drink in the other,
AND TELL YOUR MAN WHERE TO DIG."
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"Though an old man, I am but a young gardener..."
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"Weeds for sale...Pick your own"