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

Explaining Miracles

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

Robert Brault

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

Fragrant Hands

Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.

Friday, September 11

Don't Be Sad

Don't be sad that its over, be glad that it happened.

Dr. Seuss

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

The Voice of the Sun

Said the Sunflower to the Sun: "Where is your stem?"

Herman Charles Bosman

Wednesday, September 2

Look Deep

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein