"The Garden"

I hope that you will enjoy these quotes
 that  I have collected.
  I have quite a few of them, so without any
further hesitation I will let you journey
thru "The Garden."
 

The glory of gardening:

hands in the dirt, head in the heart
 with nature.  To nuture a garden is
 to feed on just the body, but the soul.

Share the botanical bliss of gardeners
through the ages, who have cultivated
philosophiesto apply to their own -
and our own - lives:

Show me your garden and I shall tell
you what you are.

- Alfred Austin, 1835-1913

Inside each one of us is a beautiful
flower garden.  This is the garden of
the soul. With each lesson we learn,
the garden grows. As we learn together,
our individual gardens form a tranquil
paradise.

- Sri Chinmoy
 

Kiss of the sun for pardon.
Song of the birds for mirth.
You're closer to God's heart
in a garden than any place
else on earth.

- Dorothy Frances Gurney

Who loves a garden
Finds within his soul
Life's whole;

He hears the anthem of the soil
While ingrates toil;

And sees beyond his little sphere
The waving fronds of heaven, clear.

- Lousie Seymour Jones,
Who Loves a Garden
 

Oh, Adam was a gardener,
and God who made him sees
That half a proper gardener's
work is done upon his knees,
So when your work is finished,
you can wash your hands and pray
For the Glory of the Garden,
that it may not pass away!

- Rudyard Kipling,
The Glory of the Garden
 

Everything that slows us down and
forces patience, everything that sets us
back into the slow circles of nature, is a
help.

Gardening is an instrument of grace.

- May Sarton