Quotes For Gardeners

Sun

Heat, Fire, Light, Sunshine, Shade, Summer

Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo

From the Spirit of Gardening Website

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes
at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light
and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding
atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.
- Claude Monet

Mesopotamia, in "the cradle of civilization", offers us the ancient
Epic of Galgamesh, probably first composed around 2000 BC. In
this ancient Sumerian story, Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, sets out on a
quest for immortality to the Garden of the Sun, the land of everlasting
life. To reach it, Gilgamesh must pass through the Sun's gate in the
mountain of the horizon. The setting Sun disappears there and
emerges from it at sunrise. A pair of terrifying scorpion-peole
stationed at the gate of heaven guard the Sun's path. But,
eventually, Gilgamesh gains entrance to the next level.

Gilgamesh and the Sun

To the best of our knowledge, our Sun is the only star
proven to grow vegetables.
- Philip Scherrer

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We are the stars which sing,
We sing with our light;
We are the birds of fire,
We fly over the sky.
Our light is a voice:
We make a road
For the spirit to pass over.
- Algonquin Song of the Stars

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
- Maori proverb

The earth has received the embrace of the sun
and we shall see the results of that love.
- Hunkesni (Sitting Bull)

The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths,
and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the
essence of the Copernican revolution. No revelation more striking
has ever come from the scientific mind.
- Robert Jastrow

When the sun hat fits, it's ugly.
The sun does not shine equally on all yards.
Plants favor sunshine, we thrive in the shade.
Leaves are sunlight, bound by water, shaped by invisible rules.
Ripening grapes in the summer sun - reason enough to plod ahead.
- Michael P. Garofalo, Pulling Onions

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. Look at
the sun: If there is no sun, then we cannot exist. So nature is my god.
To me, nature is sacred; trees are my temples and forests are
my cathedrals.
- Mikhail Gorbachev, 1990

Weather Lore and Cliches

Zeus, the father of the
Olympic Gods, turned
mid-day into night, hiding the light
of the dazzling Sun;
and sore fear came upon men.
- Archilochus (c680-c640 BC), Greek poet
Refers to the total solar eclipse of 6 April 648 BC.

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun,
he Moon, and the heavens.
- Anaxagoras

Summer - Quotes for Gardeners

Keep on the sunny side
Always on the sunny side
Keep on the sunny side of life;
It will help you every day
It will brighten you on the way
Keep on the sunny side of life.

Cuttings - Summer - Haiku and Short Poems

What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and
perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba
City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?
- Edward Abbey

Quotes for Gardeners

Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Poetry, Maxims, Quips, Cliches, Adages, Wisdom
A Collection Growing to Over 2,700 Quotes Arranged by 130 Topics
Many of the Topics also have Recommended Readings and Internet Links.
Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo

We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked
off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue,
others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed
all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and
the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke
them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.
- Mark Twain

Morning and Sunrise

Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love
her, who open to her the doors of their veins, she gives of her
strength, sustaining them with her own measureless tremor of
dark life. Touch the earth, love the earth, honor the earth, her
plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her
solitary places. For the gifts of life are the earth's and they are
given to all, and they are the songs of birds at daybreak, Orion
and the Bear, and dawn seen over ocean from the beach.
- Henry Beston (1888-1968)

At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the
horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his
glory, unveiling the whole face of nature, vivifying every colour
of the landscape, and sprinkling the dewy earth with glittering light.
- Ann Reacliffe

There is nothing more agreeable in a garden than good shade,
and without it, a garden is nothing.
- Betty Langley

Links and References

Solar Folklore

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Quotes for Gardeners

Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Poetry, Maxims, Quips, Cliches, Adages, Wisdom
A Collection Growing to Over 2,000 Quotes, Arranged by 105 Topics
Many of the Documents Include Recommended Readings and Internet Links.
Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo

The Spirit of Gardening