Quotes on Gardening And God

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

A 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.

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

To see a world in a grain of sand_x000D_ And a heaven in a wild flower,_x000D_ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,_x000D_ And eternity in an hour.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Garden as though you will live forever.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.