Do You Have a Favorite Quote, Gardening or Otherwise?

If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

(Zen proverb)

Love the Jordache one!

Jordache came out when I was a kid and there were a few girls who certainly had that as their motto!

do you remember landlubers?
laura

No. What were they??

2Zeus - my DH's version of that Zen proverb boils down to : "It is what it is." He says that a lot. That probably says something about me........LOL

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau

A friend's version of that is: "Well, it's not a ham sandwich."

"landluber hip huggers" were groovy jeans that were around in the late 60's early 70's
they put the low in low waisted, we bought them at a place called " the purple trunk"
laura

I was not allowed to wear them! Heck, after 6 boys my Mom did not want me wearing jeans period! I bought my own jeans with my babysitting money.

Okay - I do remember the style, just not that name. When I was about 8 or so was when 'hot pants' were in style! When I was a few years older, tube tops. What a great country!!!

There was so much talk of HENRY DAVID THOREAU in the begining of this thread and I had truely forgotton about him until then. So I thought it worth mentioning that there is a write up in our local paper about him today.
“The Maine Woods.” In this selection of three essays, we mark the 150th anniversary of Thoreau’s 1857 trip.

“Nature was here something savage and awful, though beautiful. I looked with awe at the ground I trod on, to see what the Powers had made there, the form and fashion and material of their work. This was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night. Here was no man's garden, but the unhandselled globe. It was not lawn, nor pasture, nor mead, nor woodland, nor lea, nor arable, nor waste-land. It was the fresh and natural surface of the planet Earth, as it was made forever and ever,—to be the dwelling of man, we say,—so Nature made it, and man may use it if he can.”
— “The Maine Woods”

hmmm -Victor in a tube top.

then again...Victor in hot pants....

I think Victor was WATCHING the tube tops and the hot pants.

are you sure???

Fairly, but it does conjure up an image, doesn't it?

I'm still laughing....

Hee hee hee

Ha ha. Maybe now - not when I was a kid!

Who plants a seed beneath the sod
And waits to see
Believes in God

se_eds - I love that quote!

You wear tube tops and hot pants now???

Only in heat waves!

I'm enjoying all of the quotes! Eleanor

"If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment!"

Something my Dad always said, "Pay yourself first and you'll always have money." What he was trying to tell me was to always put some money into my savings account so it would be there when I needed it.

I can also remember him saying he wished he'd have an eyeball on the end of his finger so he could poke his finger around the corner to see what we were doing without being seen.

Hubby's favorite saying is "No pain, no gain."

My father in law's favorite saying "Time is on my side."

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."
Margaret Mead

Yankee, THAT is a beautiful quote and Oh sooooo true!

a weed is but a flower out of place

Margret Meade is one of my heros.

You prompted me to google her...here's another quote from Ms Meade.

"I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples -- faraway peoples -- so that Americans might better understand themselves."

I agree. That's a good one of hers that I have always liked.

I found this one, by Longfellow, when I was looking at one of my magazines yesterday:

"Kind Hearts are the Gardens,
Kind Thoughts are the roots,

Kind Words are the flowers,
Kind Deeds are the fruits,

Take care of your garden and keep out the weeds,

Fill it with Sunshine, Kind Words, and Kind Deeds."

Cat - love that quote by Margaret Meade!

Has anyone mentioned-
You reap what you sow

How applicable, Diane!! That one has so many levels of meaning, and I've always liked it.

How about: You rip what you sew.

Good one, in a backwards kind of way.

You rip what you sew - my grandmother was a seamstress and always said "What you sew on a Sunday, you have to rip out with your nose". I have always tried to avoid sewing even a button on a Sunday.

Ouch! Wonder where that saying came from?! LOL