"I go to nature to be soothed
and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
---John Burroughs
"There is something remarkably
more beautiful about flowers that you yourself have planted, and
divided and cared for, than any other flowers. It reminds one
that the creation of beauty is a happy experience."
-----Lady Bird Johnson
"I am inclined to think
that the flowers we most love are those we knew when we were very
young, when our senses were most acute to color and to smell and
our natures most lyrical."
----Dorothy Thompson
"As I have gardened, feeling
myself in some sort of deep dialogue with an unseen and silent
partner, I have come to know true peace."
----Martha Smith
"You can touch them with
your eyes."
-- Pablo Picasso
"The secrets are in the
plants. To elicit them you have to love them enough."
----George Washington Carver
"There was the smell of
all the flowers at once, as if the earth had been unconscious
all day and were now waking."
---Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago,
1958
"Each flower is a soul opening
out to nature."
--- Gerald De Nerval
True obedience:
silently the flowers speak
to the inner ear
---Onitsura
Take some time for simple things,
The common pleasures each day brings-
The beauty of the morning hours,
The fragrance of your favorite flowers.
----Amanda Bradley
"All gardeners live in beautiful
places because they make them so."
- Joseph Joubert
Our senses are indeed our doors
and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the
unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity."
----Houston, Jean
"Plants give us oxygen for
the lungs and for the soul."
----Linda Solegato
"To forget how to dig the
earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
---Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Gardening is about enjoying
the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without
feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little
peace and serenity."
----Lindley Karstens
"We do not see nature with
our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."
----William Hazlett
"Gardening is the art that
uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas."
- Elizabeth Murray
"To me, photography is an art of
observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary
place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see
and everything to do with the way you see them."----Elliott Erwitt
"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
"We are living in a world
of beauty, but few of us open our eyes to see it."
~ Lorado Taft
"There's nothing quite like
a flourishing garden in a sea of concrete and glass."
----Jane G. Pepper
"The world will be saved
by beauty."
---Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Adopt the pace of nature:
her secret is patience."
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The tiniest garden is often
the loveliest."
----Vita Sackville-West
"When bright flowers bloom
Parchment crumbles, my words
fade
The pen has dropped..........."
Morpheus
"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
"Think about the photo before
and after, never during. The secret is to take your time."
----Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Always remember the beauty
of the garden, for there is peace."
- Author Unknown
"To forget how to dig the
earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
---Mohandas Gandhi
Come with me,
Into my garden,
Where beauty rests
And nature glows.
---BT
"A flower touches everyone's
heart."
~Georgia O'Keeffe
"We do not see nature with
our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts."
----William Hazlett
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty
never grows old."
----Franz Kafka
True obedience:
silently the flowers speak
to the inner ear
----Onitsura
"Everything is blooming
most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would
be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."
---Rainer Maria Rilke
"Flowers are a proud assertion
that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
----Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A flower's appeal is in its
contradictions - so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance,
so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long
on effect."
---Adabella Radici
"The love of gardening is
a seed that once sown never dies."
---Gertrude Jekyll
After bells had rung
And were silent....
Flowers chimed
A peal of fragrance.
----Basho
"All gardening is landscape-painting."
---Alexander Pope
"He who would have beautiful
roses in his garden must have beautiful roses in his heart."
----Samuel Reynolds Hole
"What man can stand with
autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and
the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?"
~ Hal Borland
"No two gardens are the
same. No two days are the same in one garden."
----Hugh Johnson
"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
"In joy or sadness, flowers
are our constant friends."
----Kozuko Okakura
"Butterflies add another
dimension in the garden for they are like dream flowers----childhood
dreams----which have broken loose from their stalk and escaped
into the sunshine."
------Miriam Rothschild, The
Butterfly Gardener, 1983
"To create a little flower
is the labor of ages."
"Flowers are a proud assertion
that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
----Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Blake
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