| A garden is never so
good as it will be next year.
- Thomas Cooper
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the
earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden
~Thomas Jefferson
Gardening is an active participation in the deepest mysteries
of the universe.
- Thomas Berry
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
Kohikohia he kai nö tö mahinga kai ka hoatu ai i
tëtahi wähanga. (Gather together food from your garden
and give some of it away.)
- Maori Proverb
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
- Ludwig
Wittgenstein
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you
need.
- Cicero
I want to thank you for the seeds that you planted in me.
- Michael Franti, Feelin' free
Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the
hand.
- Frances Bacon
Let us cultivate our garden.
- Voltaire
We've got to get ourselves back to the garden
- Joni
Mitchell
As the garden grows so does the gardener.
- Popular saying
It's time again. Tear up the violets and plant something more
difficult to grow.
- James Schuyler
What appears to you as a setting is for me a rising. What appears
to you as a prison is for my soul an endless garden.
- Rumi
Where would the gardener be if there were no weeds?
- Chuang Tzu.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in
the harvest of action.
- Meister
Eckhart
In 1837, Frederick
Froebel started the first school for four and five year
olds in Germany.
He called it 'kindergarten,' or a children's garden, and made
it into a paradisiacal sanctuary where teachers read kids poetry
and stories, led them in singing songs, and oversaw them as
they gardened and played outdoors. Government authorities later
shut the place down, citing the 'dangerous freedom' of the experiment.
- Rob Brezsny
Kohikohia he kai nö tö mahinga kai ka hoatu ai i
tëtahi wähanga. (Gather together food from your garden
and give some of it away.)
- Maori Proverb
Public gardens, too, are responding to the demand for knowledge.
At Auckland's Botanic
Gardens, for example, staff have planted the first of a
six-stage redevelopment of its edible garden because visitors
say they want to see more vegetables.
- Maggie Barry, Natural
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