Garden Quotes

I found a few quotations in a book - about gardening. Let me share them with you.

The best place to seek God is in a garden.
You can dig for Him there.
-- Bernard Shaw, Adventures of the Black Girl

Garden - the Purest of Human Pleasure
God Almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks; and a man shall ever see that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection.
--Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Gardens

Gardening - a Favourite Employ
As gardening has been the inclination of kings and the choice of philosophers, so it has been the common favourite of public and private men: a pleasure of the greatest, and the care of the meanest; and, indeed, an employment and a possession for which no man is too high nor too low.
-- Sir W. Temple

The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God's Heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.
--- Dorothy F.Gurney, God's Garden


(I've displayed the first one in my garden)


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Dinu, thanks for sharing. Maybe Dave can use them in his daily newsletter?????

Dinu, here's another, I can't credit the author, but it works very well for my life :

"To live a full life, you must write a book, raise a child and plant a tree."

For that matter Kathleen, it works well for anybody's life, provided they are literate and human!

*grin* There is something about gardening and raising children that makes us human and humane, if we do it with love, and anyone who can read the seasons has a literacy that can't be taught in school.

Beautiful! Beautiful! Thanks for sharing, Dinu and Kathleen.

I've got a few:
"I consider everything hardy until I've killed it myself."
"You're not stretching yourself as a gardener if you're not killing a few plants."
and...
"The world laughs in flowers." ~ Emerson?

Hey Wingnut, did you used to chat (how's that for a confused phrase?) on Garden.com?

Boy, have I proven a lot of plants not hardy in the house!

Oh, gosh, Kathleen. I used to have a memory like an elephant and a butt to match, now I just have the butt, so I don't know for sure. I've chatted on a few places, mostly message boards and forums ~ those chat rooms are too new-fangled and fast for me. ;-) Could have been, maybe yes, but maybe no, not. (How's THAT for a cornfused phrase? LOL!)

Where was the other Wingnut from? What were they (me?) into? Veggies, heirlooms, flowers, etc.? Did they live on a ranch like me? If you can remember anything they said or anything about them, let me know. It just might be me!

Texas, building a new house, veggies, heirloom flowers. I 'used' to be Grandmakat, well, I'm still am but only to two munchkins that named me that awhile back.

That sounds like me! Except I am remodeling a barn and turning it into a house (STILL at it ~ I don't think we'll EVER get it done!). I think I remember a "Grandmakat", too! Great to see you again, Kathleen!

Here's one of my favorite quotes..
Larkie

"If you have 2 loaves of bread
Sell one and buy flowers...
For although bread nourishes the body,
Flower's nourish the soul."