Gardening Quotes

September 22, 2009

*  Though an old man, I am but a young gardener. ~Thomas Jefferson

July 18, 2009

*  Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes,nit is a triumph of hope over experience.    ~ Marina Schinz

July 17, 2009

*   I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.  ~Claude Monet

July 11, 2009

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

July 10, 2009

* 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

* Take thy plastic spade, it is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants, they are thy colours.
~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782

* Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything – except itself.  ~May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep, 1968

June 21, 2009

“Armed with a diagram and a clipboard, Katherine would get into a shabby old Brooks raincoat, much too long for her, put on a little round hat, pull on a pair of overshoes, and proceed to the director’s chair – a folding camvas thing – that had been placed for her at the edge of the plot.  There she would sit, hour after hour, in the wind and the weather, while Henry Allen produced dozens of brown paper packages of new bulbs and a basketful of old ones, ready for the intricate interment. As the years went by and age overtook her, there was something comical yet touching in her bedraggled appearance on this awesome occasion – the small, hunched-over figure, her studied absorption in the implausible notion that there would be yet another spring, oblivious to the ending of her own days, which she knew perfectly well was near at hand, sitting there with her detailed chart under those dark skies in the dying October, calmly plotting the resurrection.” (E.B. White, Onward and Upward in the Garden, pages xviii-xix).