"What would become of the garden if the
gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would like to be treated, if he were in their place."
- Thomas Henry Huxley
"We should give as we would receive,
cheerfully, quickly, and without
hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
- Seneca
"The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow."
"The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm."
- Swedish proverb
"Those that are wasters and willful spoilers
of trees and plants, without just reason to do so, have
seldom prospered in this world."
- Moses Cook
"A kind word is like a spring
day."
- Russian proverb
The Art of Happiness by the Dali Lama, 2009.
Heart of Yoga: The Sacred Marriage of Yoga and Mysticism by Karuna Erickson and Andrew Harvey, 2010.
Loving Kindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness by Sharon Salzberg, 2003.
One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are by Ann Voskamp, 2011.
A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life by Jack Kornfield, 1993.
"As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers
when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A
balance is struck. Control, servitude, respect, imagination,
pragmatism, an ecological conscience, compliance, and a
certain measure of mysticism and altruism, all meld together
to provide nurturance."
- Jim Nollman, Why We Garden, The Sentient Garden
"One must care about a world one will
never see."
- Bertrand Russell
"He who shares the joy in what he's
grown,
Spreads joy abroad and doubles his own."
- Author unknown
"You don't have a garden just for
yourself. You have it to share."
- Augusta Carter
"The best things that can come
out of the garden
are gifts for other people."
- Jamie Jobb
"Hospitality is a form of worship."
- The Talmud
"Kind hearts are the garden,
kind thoughts are the root,
kind words are the blossoms,
kind deeds are the fruit."
"Carrying capacity ...
Caring Capacity."
- Marlene Mountain, nature
talks back
"A person who cares about the earth will resonate with its purity."
- Sally
Fox
"Gardening helps us to carefully attend to
the close at hand.
The best thing that grows in the garden is
a careful gardener.
Your rich, famous, and handsome; and, your
garden doesn't care.
Gardens are not inherently
meaningful in many ways; but, making a garden and caring
for it creates meaningfulness.
If you plant it, they will come."
- Michael P. Garofalo, Pulling
Onions
"In the
garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year,
bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil.
And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such
superb colour effects as from August to November."
- Rose G. Kingsley, The
Autumn Garden, 1905
"Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained."
- Jerzy Kozinski
One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are by Ann Voskamp, 2011.
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle, 2004.
The Solitary Druid: A Practitioner's Guide by Robert Lee Skip Ellison, 2005.
Sweeping Changes: Discovering the Joy of Zen in Everyday Tasks by Gary Thorp, 2001.
"You're giving a part
of yourself when you grow a plant and give it to somebody else."
- Art Scarpa
"A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to
me of all gentleness and its enduring."
- William Carlos Williams
"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches
patience and careful watchfulness;
it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust."
- Gertrude Jekyll
Recommended Reading
Heart of Yoga: The Sacred Marriage of Yoga and Mysticism by Karuna Erickson and Andrew Harvey, 2010.
Lifestyle Advice for Wise Persons
Loving Kindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness by Sharon Salzberg, 2003.
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