Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.
Robert Brault
This is my notepad of quotes and sayings distilled as an extract from gardens and nature...
Feel free to page through, and leave a comment if any appeal to you?
I'm always looking for more, so if you have any favourite/obscure/moving gardening quotes, I'd be happy to include them, so email me...
Tuesday, September 29
Saturday, September 26
Arrive at the New Way
One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
Henry Miller
Wednesday, September 23
Study The Ground
There is no such thing as a style fitted for every situation; only one who knows and studies the ground well, will ever make the best of a garden, and any "style" may be right where the site fits it.
William Robinson
Sunday, September 20
Digging for God
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw
Thursday, September 17
Stir The Blood
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the blood of man.
Daniel Hudson Burnham
Monday, September 14
Friday, September 11
Tuesday, September 8
Are You Mad With Joy?
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
Saturday, September 5
Wednesday, September 2
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