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
Community and Friendship - Quotes for Gardeners
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
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
Spirituality - Thoughts From the Garden
He who shares the joy in what he's
grown,
Spreads joy abroad and doubles his own.
- Author unknown
Families and Children - Quotes for Gardeners
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
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
Links and References
Caring and Compassion - Quotes to Inspire
More Quotes
for
Gardeners
Spirituality and Concerns of the Soul
Simplicity
and the Simple Life
Pulling Onions
Quips, Maxims and Observations by Michael P.
Garofalo
Haiku Poetry - Links and References
Clichés for Gardeners and Farmers
The History of Gardening
Timeline
From Ancient Times to the 20th Century
Quotes
for Gardeners
Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Poetry, Maxims, Quips,
Clichés, Adages, Wisdom
A Collection Growing to Over 2,700 Quotes, Arranged by 130 Topics
Many of the Documents Include Recommended Readings and Internet Links.
Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo
Distributed on the Internet by Michael P. Garofalo
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Comments, Ideas, Contributions, and Suggestions
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