"Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life."----Elizabeth Goudge

 

 

 

 

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."----Laura Ingalls Wilder

 

 

 

 

"All gardens are a form of autobiography."----Robert Dash

 

 

 

 

"I believe that gardens themselves are very healing. To be surrounded by the exquisite beauty of nature is to experience a healing of the soul. "- author unknown

 

 

 

 

"It's the time of tiny leaves, delicate blossoms, and long graceful catkins, the time of fragile hues, gentle rains and the glowing days that sunshine brings."----Gwen Frostic

 

 

 

 

"There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again."----Elizabeth Lawrence

 

 

 

"Autumn is a second spring, when every leaf is a flower."----Albert Cam

 

 

 

"For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too."---Albert Schweitzer

 

 

 

 "When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves."- Ken Druse

 

 

 

"The only hope we have is our children and the seeds we give them and the gardens we plant together."- Richard Brautigan

 

 

"Flowers are my music."-----Dr. Thomas Arnold

 

 

 

"All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar."----Helen Hayes

 

 

 

"A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting."----Gladys Taber

 

 

"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses."-----Hanna Rion

 

 

"Nature is not a place to visit, it is home." - Gary Snyder

 

 

"Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas."- Elizabeth Murray

 

 

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."----Franz Kafka

 

 

 

"The garden is the poor man's apothecary."----German Proverb

 

 

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."----Laura Ingalls Wilder

 

 

 "What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?" ----Anna Neagle

 

 

 

 "The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace with the world, and possibly to help others to do the same."-----Wynn Bullock

 

 

 "They(flowers).....are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decypher even fragments of their meaning."---Lydia M. Child

 

 

 

 

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."~Henry Miller~

 

 

 

 

"Whoever loves and understands a garden will find contentment within."----Chinese Proverb

 

 

 

 

 "If the night and day are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success."

----Henry David Thoreau

 

 

 

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order." ---John Burroughs

 

 

 

 

"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy."---Lope de Vega

 
 

 

 

"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer." ----Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

 

 

"The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn." ----Robert Burns

 

 

 

"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. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not." ----Georgia O'Keeffe

 

 

"It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.---W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman

 

 

"Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life."

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

 

"I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them."

----Diane Arbus

 

 

"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."

--Sigmund Freud

 

 

 

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."

---John Burroughs

 

 

 

 

"When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world.....as if a window had been opened to let in the sun."

----Princess Grace of Monaco