"My father didn't tell me how to
live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."-- -- Clarence Buddinton Kelland
"Our children are watching us live, and what we ARE shouts louder than anything we can say."--Wilfred A. Peterson
"There is probably nothing that
has such tranquilizing effect, and leads into such content, as
gardening."
----Charles Dudley Warner
"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."---Helen Keller
"If the day and night 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
"Therefore
search and see if there is not some place where you may invest
your humanity."
----Albert Schweitzer
"You must give some time to your
fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others
- something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing
it."
----Albert Schweitzer
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you.....while cares will drop off like autumn leaves......."----John Muir
"In the company of flowers we know happiness."
----John Stewart Collis, Farewell to the Wood, 1989
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."----Kahlil Gibran
"Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion."----Lorraine Anderson
"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' Keefe
"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 artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him."----Auguste Rodin
"Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes."
----Maria Konopnicka
"See how nature---trees, flowers, grass---grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence.....we need silence to be able to touch souls."----Mother Teresa
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
-----Laura Ingalls Wilder
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
----Iris Murdoch
"Flowers.....have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind."----Henry Ward Beecher
"Flowers leave some of the fragrance in the hand that bestows them."
----Chinese Proverb
"All gardening is landscape-painting."
---Alexander Pope
