Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.
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.
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.