Quotes on Inspirational Gardening

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

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

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

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.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

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.

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

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.