To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
Copy Quote View & ShareFlowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Copy Quote View & ShareAnd forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Copy Quote View & ShareA garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Copy Quote View & ShareGod Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Copy Quote View & ShareA man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
Copy Quote View & ShareI value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Copy Quote View & ShareBehold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
Copy Quote View & ShareA garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
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