“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.”
Gardening teaches patience, humility, and the fact that nature will do what it wants regardless of your plans. These quotes come from green thumbs and casual planters who found something deeper in the dirt than they expected.
“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.”
“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.”
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”
“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
“Gardening is not a rational act.”
“Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.”
“I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.”
“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
“I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.”
“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.”
“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.”
“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
“My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.”
“It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.”
“Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.”