Gardens: A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm - it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscape. A farm is virtually a living organism. The tragedy of our time is that cultural philosophies and market realities are squeezing life's vitality out of most farms. ~Joel Salatin

Gardens: A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city. ~S.J. Perelman

Gardens: A fine open-air colour was in their faces; they had that confident manner which great physical strength imparts, and that air of conscious pride which is born in lords of the soil. ~Amelia E. Huddleston Barr

Gardens: A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. ~Pam Brown

Gardens: A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. ~May Sarton

Gardens: A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. ~Charles Lamb

Gardens: A gardener's best tool is the knowledge from previous seasons. And it can be recorded in a $2 notebook. ~Andy Tomolonis

Gardens: An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up. ~Leslie Hall

Gardens: And I beseech you, forget not to informe yourselfe as dilligently as may be, in things that belong to Gardening. ~John Evelyn

Gardens: And if Mrs. Harris and myself are lucky enough to be in Heaven at the same time, I know what we can do when things get dull. We can give a garden party. I sure hope God didn't forget to plant a garden in Heaven. ~Virginia Cary Hudson

Gardens: Angels are spirits of the soul for humans, and spirits of the soil in gardens. ~Terri Guillemets

Gardens: Anybody who wants to rule the world should try to rule a garden first. ~Gardening Saying

Gardens: As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted. ~Robert Brault

Gardens: Be it deep or shallow, red or black, sand or clay, the soil is the link between the rock core of the earth and the living things on its surface. It is the foothold for the plants we grow. Therein lies the main reason for our interest in soils. ~Roy Simonson

Gardens: Bloom where you are planted. ~Author Unknown

Gardens: By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course. ~Henry Mitchell

Gardens: Can plants be happy? If they get what they need, they thrive - that's what I know. ~Terri Guillemets

Gardens: Charles Robert Darwin, the great English scientist, after years of patient study, published a book of 236 pages dealing exclusively with earthworms. In this volume

Gardens: Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else? ~Betsy Canas Garmon

Gardens: Creating your own urban farm is as simple as planting your flowerbeds with edibles. ~Greg Peterson

Gardens: Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise.

Gardens: Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees. ~Anne Raver

Gardens: Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. ~Douglas William Jerrold, about Australia

Gardens: Essential advice for the gardener: grow peas of mind, lettuce be thankful, squash selfishness, turnip to help thy neighbor, and always make thyme for loved ones. ~Author Unknown

Gardens: Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it. ~Ed Wynn

Gardens: Everything, from kings to cabbages, needs a root in the soil somewhere. ~Woods Hutchinson, A.M., M.D.

Gardens: Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. ~Alfred Austin

Gardens: Farming is a profession of hope. ~Brian Brett

Gardens: Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Gardens: Fingers now scented with sage and rosemary, a kneeling gardener is lost in savory memories. ~Dr. SunWolf

Gardens: Flowers grow in inches, but are destroyed by feet. ~Gardening Saying

Gardens: For worms, is soil just another day at the office? ~Terri Guillemets

Gardens: From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return." ~Robert Brault

Gardens: Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark, swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora. ~Ketzel Levine's talkingplants.com

Gardens: Gardeners learn by trowel and error. ~Gardening Saying

Gardens: Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. ~May Sarton

Gardens: Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed. ~Lewis Gannit

Gardens: Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. ~Author Unknown

Gardens: 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, noproblemgarden.com

Gardens: Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes. ~Author Unknown

Gardens: Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. ~Henry David Thoreau

Gardens: Gardening is growing things.... You start in the front with parsley, and lettuce, and onions, and radishes.... Then comes the beets, and the carrots, and the peas, and the bunch beans. The potatoes are over in a field by themselves. Then comes the asparagus, and the celery, and last of all the pole beans, and the butter beans, and the sweet corn. Then you bound your garden on the north and the east with cantelopes

Gardens: Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts. ~Author unknown

Gardens: Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. ~Lou Erickson

Gardens: Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another. ~Robert Harbison

Gardens: Gardens are a form of autobiography. ~Sydney Eddison

Gardens: Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves. ~H.E. Bates

Gardens: Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. ~Walt Whitman

Gardens: God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases. ~Variation of a saying by Jacques Deval

Gardens: God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. ~Author Unknown

Gardens: Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery. ~Wendell Berry

Gardens: Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. ~Russell Page

Gardens: Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. ~Mrs. C.W. Earle

Gardens: He talked and contrived endlessly to the effect that I should understand the land, not as a commodity, an inert fact to be taken for granted, but as an ultimate value, enduring and alive, useful and beautiful and mysterious and formidable and comforting, beneficent and terribly demanding, worthy of the best of a man's attention and care.... he insisted that I learn to do the hand labor that the land required, knowing-and saying again and again-that the ability to do such work is the source of a confidence and an independence of character that can come no other way, not by money, not by education. ~Wendell Berry

Gardens: History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils. ~Jacques Barzun

Gardens: How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it? Science says that an acre of soil produces one horsepower every day. But you could pour gasoline all over the ground forever and never see it sprout maple trees. ~William Bryant Logan

Gardens: How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. ~Benjamin Disraeli

Gardens: Human vanity can best be served by a reminder that, whatever his accomplishments, his sophistication, his artistic pretension, man owes his very existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil — and the fact that it rains. ~Anonymous, in , sometime between 1930 and 1968

Gardens: I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must not write outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden. ~Frances Hodgson Burnett

Gardens: 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

Gardens: I believe that virtually everyone has the ability to either grow some food at home, or to find an appropriate location to start a garden. I may sound like a kook who plants my landscape with cucumbers instead of carnations, peppers instead of petunias, and fruit trees rather than ficus, but I am convinced that wherever you go, you can grow food! Now is the time for us to join together and plant the seeds that will transform the places in which we live. ~Greg Peterson

Gardens: I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating. ~Wendell Berry

Gardens: I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. ~Robert Brault

Gardens: I doe hold it, in the Royall ordering of in the Yeare: In which, severally Things of Beautie, may in then in Season. ~Francis Bacon

Gardens: I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who are no longer strangers, but friends who delight in the edible rewards offered from a garden they discovered together. Imagine small strips of land between apartment buildings that have been turned into vegetable gardens, and urban orchards planted at schools and churches to grow food for our communities. The seeds of the urban farming movement already are growing within our reality. ~Greg Peterson

Gardens: I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden. ~John Erskine

Gardens: I have never read of any Roman supper that seemed to me equal to a dinner of my own vegetables; when everything on the table is the product of my own labor.... It is strange what a taste you suddenly have for things you never liked before. The squash has always been to me a dish of contempt; but I eat it now as if it were my best friend. I never cared for the beet or the bean; but I fancy now that I could eat them all, tops and all, so completely have they been transformed by the soil in which they grew. I think the squash is less squashy, and the beet has a deeper hue of rose, for my care of them. ~Charles Dudley Warner

Gardens: I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries. ~Novella Carpenter

Gardens: I love being asked to identify plants, and I don't know which gives me more pleasure: to know what they are or not to know what they are. ~Elizabeth Lawrence

Gardens: I must own I had always looked on worms as amongst the most helpless and unintelligent members of the creation; and am amazed to find that they have a domestic life and public duties! ~Joseph Dalton Hooker, letter to Charles Darwin

Gardens: I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden. ~Abraham Cowley

Gardens: I saw all the people hustling early in the morning to go into the factories and the stores and the office buildings, to do their job, to get their checks. But ultimately, it's not office buildings or jobs that give us our checks. It's the soil. The soil is what gives us the real income that supports us all. ~Ed Begley, Jr.

Gardens: I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ~Bill Watterson

Gardens: I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day. ~Robert Brault

Gardens: I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. ~F. Frankfort Moore

Gardens: I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. ~Reginald Farrer

Gardens: I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. ~Phyllis Theroux

Gardens: I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Gardens: If I finish my day with no garden dirt under my fingernails and nothing new learned, it is a day wasted! ~Valerie Clague

Gardens: If there was a big gardening convention, and you got up and gave a speech in favor of fast-motion gardening, I bet you would get booed right off the stage. They're just not ready. ~Jack Handey

Gardens: If you are a gardener, you can always put "Plant Manager" on your resume. ~Author Unknown

Gardens: If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~Cicero

Gardens: If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden. ~Robert Brault

Gardens: In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener. ~Robert Rodale

Gardens: In every gardener there is a child who believes in The Seed Fairy. ~Robert Brault

Gardens: In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~Sam Llewelyn

Gardens: In making out your garden plan this year you will probably find yourself handicapped by the lack of accurate knowledge about your plants of last year-how much of each thing you used, the dates of the last frost in the spring and the first killing frost in autumn, when the various insect pests appeared, when you made your last sowing for winter vegetables, how long after planting it took the different varieties of vegetables to mature, and a score of other things, all of which you have had to guess at with no degree of certainty. Provide now against next spring. Get a cheap diary and leave it in the pocket of your work clothes or hang it up in the tool shed. In it jot down from time to time the things you particularly want to keep track of. ~Frederick Frye Rockwell

Gardens: In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past. ~Alexander Smith

Gardens: In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past. ~Alexander Smith

Gardens: In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~Abram L. Urban

Gardens: In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. ~Frank McKinney Hubbard

Gardens: In the garden I tend to drop my thoughts here and there. To the flowers I whisper the secrets I keep and the hopes I breathe. I know they are there to eavesdrop for the angels. ~Dodinsky

Gardens: In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~Margaret Atwood

Gardens: It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Gardens: It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ~James Douglas

Gardens: 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

Gardens: It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. ~Robert Brault

Gardens: It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing. ~Eleanor Perenyi

Gardens: It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season. ~Kate Morton

Gardens: It's September in my garden. Green beans abound. My mouth waters for the ripening sweet corn. Winter carrots slowly set down their tender roots. A breeze brings the smell of apples. Kale, collards and broccoli unfurl their leafy coats, getting ready for frost. ~Kristina Turner

Gardens: Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals. ~Aldo Leopold

Gardens: Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Gardens: Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature... ~William Wordsworth, letter to George Beaumont

Gardens: Learn to be an observer in all seasons. Every single day, your garden has something new and wonderful to show you. ~Author Unknown

Gardens: Let nature be in your yard. ~Greg Peterson,

Gardens: Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart. ~Karel Čapek

Gardens: Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb

Gardens: Life's a garden - dig it. ~Gardening Saying

Gardens: Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. ~Thomas Fuller

Gardens: More grows in the garden than the gardener sows. ~Spanish Proverb

Gardens: Most people who possess anything like an acre, or half of it, contribute weekly to the support of a gentleman known as Jobbing Gardener. You are warned of the danger that he may prove to be Garden Pest no 1. ~C.E. Lucas-Phillips

Gardens: My garden is my favorite teacher. ~Betsy Canas Garmon

Gardens: 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 Dale

Gardens: My little bit of earth in the front garden is one of the places that I find my bearings. The rhythm of my day begins with a cup of coffee and a little bit of weeding or dreaming. ~Betsy Canas Garmon

Gardens: My rule of green thumb for mulch is to double my initial estimate of bags needed, and add three. Then I'll only be two bags short. ~Author Unknown

Gardens: No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be grown! Window sill, fire escape and rooftop gardens have the same potential to provide impressive harvests as backyard gardens, greenhouses and community spaces. ~Greg Peterson

Gardens: No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. ~Hugh Johnson

Gardens: Nothing is more completely the child of Art than a Garden. ~Walter Scott

Gardens: O ye Sun and Moon, oh ye beans and roses, oh ye jigs and juleps, Bless ye the Lord, Praise Him and Magnify Him Forever. Amen. ~Virginia Cary Hudson

Gardens: Often... visible outdoor areas are homogenous, cookie-cutter spaces, where neatly-trimmed grass or a few well-placed flower pots are admired and appreciated by the neighbors. But for some revolutionary gardeners, a feast for the eyes is not enough. They want something edible in return for the hard work, the water and the expense of tending a landscape. These food revolutionaries are maximizing their cultivation area by converting their landscapes, patios, and nearby vacant lots into productive edible gardens. In the quest for more space to grow food, even conventional front lawns are being transformed into maverick, and highly visible, vegetable plots.... the rise of modern vegetable gardeners who are cutting against the grain of current landscape fashion to grow food out in the open once again. ~Kari Spencer, ”

Gardens: Old gardeners never die, they just run out of thyme. ~Gardening Saying

Gardens: On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Gardens: One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. ~Dan Bennett

Gardens: One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. ~W.E. Johns

Gardens: One of the worst mistakes you can make as a gardener is to think you're in charge. ~Janet Gillespie

Gardens: Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots. ~Author Unknown

Gardens: Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. ~Terri Guillemets

Gardens: Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul. ~Terri Guillemets

Gardens: Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them. ~Victoria Glendinning

Gardens: Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but when I told that story around the campfire, nobody got scared. ~Jack Handey

Gardens: The ancient Chinese regarded earthworms as "angels of the earth." Aristotle considered worms as "intestines of the earth." ~Lee Ann Gillen

Gardens: The ancient Hebrew association of man with soil is echoed in the Latin name for man

Gardens: The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow. ~Author unknown

Gardens: The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. ~George Bernard Shaw

Gardens: The boys and girls have some garden work, and watering the flowers was quite an exhilarating pastime to them; and there was threshing out beans with old-fashioned flails in the seed barn, and a good deal of trundling about of little hand-carts, and wheelbarrows adown the alleys in the great vegetable garden, which was laid out in such beds of asparagus and ranks of sweet corn and good things, and cut in two by a broad walk bordered all up and down with sunflowers, that it would have done the soul of Oscar Wilde good to contemplate. ~Amanda B. Harris

Gardens: The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard. ~Joel Salatin

Gardens: The garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature. ~Jeff Cox

Gardens: The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb

Gardens: The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. ~Abraham Lincoln

Gardens: The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~Hanna Rion

Gardens: The home gardener is part scientist, part artist, part philosopher, part ploughman. ~John R. Whiting

Gardens: The hum of bees is the voice of the garden. ~Elizabeth Lawrence

Gardens: The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild-oats.... To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch their renewal of life,-this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.... Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.... Broad acres are a patent of nobility; and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. ~Charles Dudley Warner

Gardens: The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.... It is a pleasure to eat of the fruit of one's toil, if it be nothing more than a head of lettuce or an ear of corn. One cultivates a lawn even with great satisfaction; for there is nothing more beautiful than grass and turf in our latitude.... the world without turf is a dreary desert.... To dig in the mellow soil... is a great thing. One gets strength out of the ground.... There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds; and it also, when it is stirred up, goes into the man who stirs it. The hot sun on his back as he bends to shovel and hoe, or contemplatively rakes the warm and fragrant loam, is better than much medicine. ~Charles Dudley Warner

Gardens: The plough is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly ploughed, and still continues to be thus ploughed by earth-worms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures. ~Charles Darwin

Gardens: The principal value of a private garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessor vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues,-hope deferred, and expectations blighted.... The garden thus becomes a moral agent, a test of character, as it was in the beginning. ~Charles Dudley Warner

Gardens: The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. ~Dalai Lama

Gardens: The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life. ~Wendell Berry

Gardens: The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. ~Wendell Berry

Gardens: The term Garden, which originally implied nothing more than a kitchen-garden or orchard, is, according to its modern acceptation, a plot or piece of ground properly laid out, cultivated, and embellished with a variety of plants, flowers, fruits, &c. Hence, gardening, or horticulture, taken in the most enlarged sense, signified whatever contributes to adorn the scenes of nature, and render them delightful. Gardens are usually distinguished into flower-garden, fruit-garden and kitchen-garden. ~ by a Society of Practical Gardeners

Gardens: The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry. ~James Hervey

Gardens: There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues. ~Hal Borland

Gardens: There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. ~Aldo Leopold

Gardens: 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

Gardens: There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. ~Alfred Austin

Gardens: There is something primal, even sexy about growing asparagus in the garden that is lost to those who are only familiar with the canned variety. During the harvest each spring, it is with joyous anticipation that I visit the garden daily, simply for the satisfaction of finding those tender new shoots reaching up towards the sun. ~Kari Spencer, ”

Gardens: Timeliness, which is of importance in achieving success in almost any undertaking, is particularly important in garden operations.... On the other hand, the gardener who imagines that his work can be reduced to a set of rules and formulæ, followed and applied according to special days marked on the calendar, is but preparing himself for a double disappointment. Few things are so certain to be uncertain as the seasons and the weather; and these, rather than a set of dates, even for a single locality, form the signs which the real gardener follows. That is the great trouble with much book and magazine gardening. ~Frederick Frye Rockwell

Gardens: To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Gardens: To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden. ~Leo Buscaglia

Gardens: Today I had set aside for spading. Now there is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. You turn a spade full and then carefully knock all the lumps to pieces and you go on for hours without thinking about anything. ~John Steinbeck, letter to Kate Beswick

Gardens: Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it. ~S.J. Perelman

Gardens: Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ~Orson Scott Card

Gardens: We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike. ~Evelyn Underhill

Gardens: We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. ~Wendell Berry

Gardens: We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot. ~Leonardo da Vinci

Gardens: We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. "It must be up there somewhere on the horizon," we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet. ~William Bryant Logan

Gardens: We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are all forms of the soil. But that part of this mineral that is on top, like it is the skin of the earth, that is the most precious of the commons. ~Wangari Maathai

Gardens: 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

Gardens: Weed it and reap. ~Gardening Saying

Gardens: When a front yard is converted to a vegetable garden, growing food goes public! Gardens that are visible from the street naturally pique the interest of the community. The result can be that the gardener... reconnects with their food, and also forges new connections with their neighbors. Some residents may be surprised, even resistant to the idea of a garden that is cultivated out in the open. But, as flowers bloom and veggies begin to form, attracting birds, bees and butterflies, as well as curious neighbors, a tended garden converts a sterile space into a living sanctuary. Most neighbors will grow to appreciate its beauty. A few community members may even jump on board, adding a few edible plants to their own landscapes. ~Kari Spencer, ”

Gardens: When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb

Gardens: When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gardens: When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside too. ~Terri Guillemets

Gardens: When the soil disappears, the soul disappears. ~Terri Guillemets

Gardens: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. ~Author unknown

Gardens: When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved. ~Frank Swinnerton

Gardens: Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is: "Love. They must do it for love." Farmers farm for the love of farming. They love to watch and nurture the growth of plants. They love to live in the presence of animals. They love to work outdoors. They love the weather, maybe even when it is making them miserable. They love to live where they work and to work where they live. If the scale of their farming is small enough, they like to work in the company of their children and with the help of their children. They love the measure of independence that farm life can still provide. ~Wendell Berry

Gardens: Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. ~Robert Brault

Gardens: With fronds like you, who needs anemones. ~Gardening Saying

Gardens: Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. ~Charles Wagner

Gardens: You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~Author Unknown