When your garden is finished, I hope it will be more beautiful than you anticipated, require less care that you had expected, and have cost only a little more than you had planned. - Thomas D. Church
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. - Mahatma Gandhi
One year's seeding makes seven years' weeding. - Old Weeder's Advice
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. – Georgia O’Keeffe
There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. - Janet Kilburn Phillips
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust
If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, And of thy meager store Two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul. - Sheikh Muslih- uddin Saadi Shirazi, 13th century poet
I do not believe in pampering plants. If they are miffy, let them go. - Elizabeth Lawrence
Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.- Lou Erickson
Flowers are beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us. - Wolfgang von Geothe
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