The wisdom of Gardening...

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair...- Kahlil Gibran

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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty ofnature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know thatthen there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever thecircumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. - Anne Frank

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The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.- Willem de Kooning

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When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.- William Hazlitt

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

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The more help a man has in his garden,the less it belongs to him.- William M. Davies

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A weed is but an unloved flower.- Ella Wilcox, 1855 - 1919

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A weed is a plant that is not only in the wrong place, but intends to stay.- Sara Stein

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic, 1878.

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“It’s amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the nicest part of gardening is walking around in a daze, idly deadheadingthe odd dahlia, wondering where on earth to squeeze in yet another impulse buy, debating whether to move the recalcitrant artemisia one more time, or day dreaming about where to put the pergola.”- Jane Garmey, A Writer in the Garden

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“A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.I t was a mind-altering drug we took daily.”- Paul Fleischman, Seedfolks