In the Garden

All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.  ~ unknown

 

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within the reach of every hand. ~ Mother Teresa

 

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. ~Kahlil Gibran

 

Friends are flowers in the garden of life.  ~ unknown

 

A beautiful garden is a work of heart.  ~ unknown

 

I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. ~Joyce Kilmer, ÒTrees.Ó

 

The earth laughs in flowers. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

A garden is a friend you can visit anytime.  ~ unknown

 

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green. ~ Henry David Thoreau

 

A rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.  ~ unknown

 

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~ John Keats

 

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

 

All things grow with love.  ~ unknown

 

Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

If you would have a mind at peace, a heart that cannot harden, go find a door that opens wide upon a lovely garden.  ~ unknown

 

Gardening is an exercise in optimism.  ~ unknown

 

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.   ~ Aristotle.

 

Plant the seeds of friendship, and then watch the blessings grow! ~ unknown

 

All gardening is landscape painting. ~ Horace Walpole

 

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.  ~ Georgia O'Keefe

 

Beauty blooms in the garden as it does in the heart.  ~ unknown

 

Compost. Because a rind is a terrible thing to waste.  ~ unknown

 

Don't grumble that roses have thorns; be thankful that thorns have roses!  ~ unknown

 

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved.  You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?  ~ Alice Walker, The Color Purple

 

Fortunate are they to whom gardening is a joy.  ~ unknown

 

Friends are like flowers in the garden of life.  ~ unknown

 

And then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodils. ~ William Wordsworth

 

Gardeners live longer, awaiting another Spring.  ~ unknown

 

Gardening tills the soul.  ~ unknown

 

Should I weed the lawn or say itÕs a garden? 

 

Though an old man, I am but a young gardener. ~ Thomas Jefferson

 

Like people, plants respond to extra attention. ~ H.Peter Loewer

 

Anyone can have dirt.  Gardeners have soil.  ~ unknown

 

Gardening: just another day at the plant.  ~ unknown

 

If you are a gardener, you can always put 'Plant Manager' on your resume. ~ unknown

 

Grow where you're planted.  ~ unknown

 

Bloom where you are planted. ~ Mary Engelbreit 

 

You know you are a hard-core gardener if you deadhead flowers in other people's garden. ~ Sue Careless

 

If the grass on the other side of the fence appears greener - it must be all the fertilizer they're using. ~ Kevin Rodowicz

 

I have a rock garden.  Last week three of them died.  ~ unknown

 

I'm not aging; I just need to be repotted.  ~ unknown

 

You can bury a lot of troubles by digging in the dirt.  ~ unknown

 

Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the root, kind words are the blossoms and kind deeds are the fruit. ~ John Ruskin

 

We have not inherited the earth from our parents; we have borrowed it from our children. ~ L. Brown

 

Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year. ~ Richardson Wright

 

Love blooms where kindness is planted.  ~ unknown

 

I garden, therefore I am.  ~ unknown

 

Love grows here.  ~ unknown

 

Happiness held is a seed.  Happiness shared is the flower.  ~ unknown

 

Never enough thyme!

 

May all your weeds be wildflowers. ~ unknown

 

Scatter joy.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The garden that is finished is dead.  ~ unknown

 

Roses are red, violets are blue; but they don't get around like the dandelions do!  ~ Slim Acres

 

Old gardeners never die - they just spade away.  ~ unknown

 

One good thing about rutabagas is that they provide something for turnips to taste better than.  ~ unknown

 

Plant smiles; grow giggles; harvest love.  ~ unknown

 

Scatter seeds of happiness.

 

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~ The Koran

 

There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be still to hear it.  ~ unknown

 

Tickle the earth with a hoe; it will laugh a harvest.  ~ unknown

 

Gardening requires lots of water- most of it in the form of perspiration. ~ Lou Erictson

 

The wise gardener anticipates June in January. Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle.

 

To plant a garden is to believe in the future.

 

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust

 

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.  ~ Chinese Proverb

 

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

 

It is at the edge of a petal that love awaits. ~ W. Carlos Williams

 

I want death to find me planting my cabbages. ~ Montaigne, Essays Book 1 (1880)

 

I was determined to know beans.  ~ Henry David Thoreau, ÒWaldenÓ, 1854

 

Show me your garden and I shall tell you who you are. ~ Alfred Austin (1857-1929)

It takes a long time to grow old friends.

Cultivate the garden within.

As the Garden Grows, so does the Gardener.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. ~ Francis Bacon

A rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.