One seed can start a garden
One drop can start a sea
One doubt can start a hating
One dream can set us free...
~J.W. Anglund~

Friendship

Life is a garden, good friends are the flowers
and times spent together life's happiest hours...
And friendship like flowers, blooms ever more fair...
when carefully tended by dear friends who care.
~Helen Steiner Rice~

All through the long Winter,
I dream of my Garden.
On the first day of Spring,
I dig my fingers deep into soft earth.
I can feel its energy,
and my spirits soar.
~Helen Hayes~

How true it is that,
if we are cheerful and contented,
all nature smiles,
the air seems more balmy,
the sky clearer,
the earth has a brighter green...
the flowers are more fragrant...
and the sun, moon, and stars
all appear more beautiful,
and seem to rejoice with us.
~Orison Swett Marden~

Plants that wake when others sleep-
Timid jasmine buds that keep
Their fragrance to themselves all day,
But when the sunlight dies away
Let the delicious secret out
To every breeze that roams about.
~Thomas Moore~

Happiness grows at our own firesides,
and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
~Douglas Jerrold~

I am sure it is a great mistake always to know
enough to go in when it rains.
One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge,
but one misses a world of loveliness.
~Adeline Knapp~

"No occupation is so delightful to me as
the culture of the earth, and no culture
comparable to that of the garden. Though
I am an old man, I am a young gardner."
~Thomas Jefferson~

"Look at us", said the violets blooming at her feet,
"all last winter we slept in the seeming death...
but at the right time God awakened us,
and here we are to comfort you."
~Edward Payson Rod~

When in the fresh mornings I go into
my garden before anyone is awake,
I go for the time being into perfect happiness.
~Cecilia Thaxter~

What is a weed?
A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

If man finds himself with bread in both hands,
he should exchange one loaf for some flowers
of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body,
but the flowers feed the soul.
~Muhammad~

"No, the heart that has truly lov'd never forgets,
But as truly loves on the close;
As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sees,
the same look which she turn'd on him when he rose."
~Thomas Moore~

"There is always room for beauty: memory
A myriad lovely blooms may enclose,
But, what soe'r has been, there still must be
Room for another rose."
~Florence Earl Coates~

The best rose-bush, after all,
is not that which has the fewest thorns,
but that which bears the finest roses.
~Henry Van Dyke~

And the spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley~

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which,
if you were to creep up behind someone at their work,
you would find them smiling.
~Mirabel Osler~

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint,
and the soil and sky as canvas-
working with nature provides the technique.
~Elizabeth Murray~

Happiness is knowing a flower will grow where you've planted a seed.
~Unknown~

"And tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes."
~William Wordsworth~

Take out the weeds from some wild spot,
remove each stone that shows,
plant seeds of friendship good and deep,
and tend the plant that grows.
~Mary Freeman Startzman~

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses,
what might not the heart of man become
in its long journey toward the stars?
~G.K. Chesterton~

Morning glory is the best name,
it always refreshes me to see it.
~Henry David Thoreau~

I knew in my heart that I wanted to know the garden intimately,
to know all the flowers in each season,
to be there from spring through autumn,
digging, pruning, planting, feeding, rejoicing.
In short, I had fallen in love.
~Elizabeth Murray~

There is a little plant called reverence
in the corner of my soul's garden,
which I love to have watered once a week.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His Heaven;
All's right with the world!
~Robert Browning~

If you want to be happy all your life, plant a garden.
~Chinese Proverb~

Creativity is so delicate a flower
that praise tends to make it bloom,
while discouragement often nips it in the bud.
~Unknown~

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful;
they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
~Luther Burbank~

The comfortable and comforting people are those who look
the bright side of life;
gathering its roses and sunshine
and making the most that happens seem the best.
~Dorothy Dix~

When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower,
it opened up a whole new world...
a world where every country walk would be an adventure,
where every garden would become an enchanted one.
~Princess Grace~
(of Monaco)

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it.
We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there.
~Edward Abbey~

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station
through which God speaks to us every hour,
if we will only tune in.
~George Washington Carver~

I am fully and intensely aware
that plants are conscious of love and respond to it
as they do to nothing else.
~Celia Thaxter~

What a desolate place would be a world without flowers!
It would be a face without a smile,
a feast without welcome.
Are not flowers the stars of the earth?
Are not our stars the flowers of heaven?
~Clara Balfour~