Develop a a passion for hoeing. To cut down a weed is, therefore, to do a moral action. My hoe becomes an instrument of retributive justice. Hoeing becomes, not a pastime, but a duty. Nevertheless, what a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back with a hinge in it.
-Charles Dudley Warner "My Summer in a Garden" 1872
Old Gardeners Never Die, They Just Spade Away.
- Unknown
Old gardeners never die . . . they just go to seed
- Unknown
More than anything, I must have flowers always, always
-Claude Monet
Give weeds an inch and they'll take your yard
- Unknown
A beautiful garden is a work of heart
- Unknown
Never enough thyme in this garden of mine
- Unknown
A garden is never so good as it will be next year
-Thomas Cooper
Earth laughs in flowers
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers are the sweetest thing God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into
-Henry Ward Beecher
Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the from of perspiration
-Lou Erickson
Flowers seem intended for a solace of ordinary humanity . . .
-John Ruskin
Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade
-Rudyard Kipling
Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the root,
kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
- John Ruskin
May all your weeds be wildflowers
- Unknown
Spring is Nature's way of saying "let's party!"
- Unknown
To create a little flower is the labour of ages
- Robert Blake
‘Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breaths
-William Wordsworth
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden
-Sir Walter Scott
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth,
that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissing the tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
- Margaret Atwood
How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence
-Benjamin Disraeli
Heaven is beneath our feet as well as over our heads
-Henry David Thoreau
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
- Unknown
Old gardeners never die . . . they just go to seed.
- Unknown
Should I weed the lawn or say it's a garden?
- Unknown
Though an old man I am but a young gardener
-Thomas Jefferson
A Weed is but an unloved Flower
- Unknown
An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life
-Cora Lea Bell
A busy hoe gathers no rust. A rusty hoe in June is a sure sign of a poor farmer.
- Genesee Farmer" 1838
