Quotes on Great Garden

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

Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical no matter what its actual content.

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

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters