"All my hurts
My garden spade can heal."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"Yes, in the poor man's garden grow
Far more than herbs and flowers-
Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind,
And joy for weary hours."
Mary Howitt
"Greenfly, it's difficult to see
Why God, who made the rose, made thee."
A.P. Herbert (1890-1971)
"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back with
a hinge on it."
Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)
GARDENING LAWS OF:(1) Other people's tools
work only in other people's gardens. (2) Fancy gadgets
don't work. (3) If nobody uses it, there's a reason.
(4) You get the most of what you need the least.
"A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated
with one's personal history and that of one's friends,
interwoven with one's tastes, preferences, and character,
and constitutes a sort of unwritten, but withal manifest,
autobiography. Show me your garden, provided it be
your own, and I will tell you what you are like."
Alfred Austin (1835-1913)
"No man feels more of a man in the world
if he have but a bit of ground that he can call his
own. However small it is on the surface, it is four
thousand miles deep; and that is a very
handsome property."
Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)
"Every flower about a house certifies to the
refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming
tells of love and joy."
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)
"It is good to be alone in a
garden at dawn or dark so
that all its shy presences may
haunt you and possess you
in a reverie of suspended
thought."
James Douglas
