“A good garden may have some weeds.”
Topic
gardening
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Voices on gardening
“The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.”
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“Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.”
“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”
“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.”
“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.”
“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.”
“I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.”
“I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.”
“Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.”
“I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.”
“The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.”
“But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.”
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
“I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.”
“He plants trees to benefit another generation.”
“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.”
“I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.”
“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
“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.”
“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.”
“It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.”
“In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.”