I’ve been busy trying to keep up here in the office…taking budget classes and whatnot. So I’m going to put down a few sayings and some poetry on gardens and gardeners…then throw in a few of my pictures I’ve taken throughout the last few years.
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Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden ~ Orson Scott Card
All my hurts…My garden can heal ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God’s heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth ~ Dorothy Frances Gurney
Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. ~ Sara Stein
…the earth, gentle and indulgent, ever subservient to
the wants of man, spread his walks with flowers, and
his table with plenty; returns with interest, every good
committed to her care ~ Pliny the Elder
Yes, in the poor man’s garden grow
Far more than herbs and flowers –
Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind,
And joy for weary hours ~ Mary Howitt
A real gardener is not a man who cultivates
flowers; he is a man who cultivates the
soil…If he came into the Garden of Eden
he would sniff excitedly and say:
‘GOOD LORD, WHAT HUMMUS!’ ~ Karel Capek
A garden is like those pernicious machineries
which catch a man’s coat-skirt or his hand,
and draw in his arm, his leg and his whole
body to irresitible destruction ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere ~ Vincent van Gogh
Don’t wear perfume in the garden – unless you want to be pollinated by bees ~ Anne Raver
With tumbled hair of swarms of bees,
and flower-robes dancing in the breeze,
With sweet, unsteady lotus-glances,
Intoxicated, Spring advances ~ Sanskrit poem
‘To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables’ ~ Prince Charles
Gardening can become a kind of disease. It infects you’ you can not escape it.
When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden;
you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresitble impluse
to get up and pull a weed ~ Lewis Gannit
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there,
a hive for the honey-bee,
and live alone in the bee-loud glade ~ W.B. Yeats
What is a weed? A plant whose virtures have not yet been discovered ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view. ~ H. Fred Ale
Even if something is left undone,
everyone must take time to sit still
and watch the leaves turn ~ Elizabeth Lawrence
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. ~ Mirabel Osler
God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. ~ Author Unknown
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. ~ Marcelene Cox
Love your pics and poetry. Perfect for this time of year :).
That bumper sticker you saw…I actually have it on the back of my Blazer lol.
Feliz Dia!
Penny \IiiI
Beautiful pics!
Love all the pictures, especially the pink and white flowers. That one is amazing. They come alive.
Thank you all ~ 🙂
Hi! I stumbled across your blog looking for pickle recipes (of all things) and loved this post. Your pictures are amazing!
Hopefully you found my post on pickle recipes! 🙂
Thank you for your kind comments.